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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs!
Welcome back to the 33rd episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs!” will tell you about corruption in education system, self-improvement industry and organized religion.
In Episode 29, we saw how humanity handed over the reins of cognition to its collective autonomous mind instead of a spontaneous collective brain.
Thus our very cognition was the first casualty.
Therefore, when we started pursuing our collective growth needs, all of which are based on our cognition, we were already operating from a closed sociocultural solar plexus chakra and a host of other closed chakras due to corrupted pursuits of our deficiency needs.
It is no surprise that we ended up with more corrupted institutions that claim to fulfill our cognitive, self-actualization and transcendence needs.
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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs! – Show Notes
In this thought-provoking episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure, titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs!”, I explain the intricate corruption present within our education system, the self-improvement industry, and organized religion.
As I explore the impact of closed socio-cultural chakras on our collective growth, I uncover how the pursuit of social status has overshadowed genuine cognitive and self-actualization needs. The education system, designed to nurture knowledge, has instead become a factory for producing mere qualifications, transforming eager learners into mechanical cogs in a relentless production wheel.
I also examine the self-improvement industry, where ambition has eclipsed passion, leading to a commodification of self-actualization that prioritizes perfection over excellence.
Furthermore, organized religion emerges as a complex web of competing beliefs, often sacrificing the true essence of transcendence for the sake of dogma and division.
Join me as I navigate through these pressing issues, questioning the very foundations of our societal structures and their effects on our individual and collective well-being. This episode is a call to reflect on the true nature of our needs and the systems that claim to fulfill them.
In this episode, I explore the following:
- The impact of social status on education and its implications for cognitive growth.
- How ambition has transformed the self-improvement industry into a pursuit of perfection.
- The fragmentation of organized religion and its consequences for societal unity.
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs! – Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) – Education System
(00:11:51) – What is Religion
(00:15:04) – Questions of Science vs Religion
(00:22:57) – Ideas of Religions
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs! – Video
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Growth Needs! – Transcript with Timestamps
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Is it just random that the best talent humanity is
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benefiting from comes mostly from
the echelons of college dropouts?
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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to
“Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”.
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Skeletal Leap transforms one’s
life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about
corruption in education system,
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self-improvement industry and organized religion.
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In Episode 29, we saw how humanity handed over the
reins of cognition to its collective autonomous
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mind instead of a spontaneous collective brain.
Thus our very cognition was the first casualty.
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Therefore, when we started pursuing our
collective growth needs, all of which are
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based on our cognition, we were already operating
from a closed sociocultural solar plexus chakra
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and a host of other closed chakras due to
corrupted pursuits of our deficiency needs.
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It is no surprise that we ended up
with more corrupted institutions
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that claim to fulfill our cognitive,
self-actualization and transcendence needs.
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Our education system falls under sociocultural
solar plexus chakra that aims to fulfill
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cognitive needs by renewing the brain
continuously and energizing it cyclically.
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However, the currency it uses is ‘social status’
such as qualifications and specializations
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that fall in the domain of the mind rather than
brain, thus closing the sociocultural solar plexus
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chakra. Qualifications and specializations
turned more important than fulfilling
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cognitive needs in an insightful manner.
Thus, the noble pursuit of educating
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the new generation with insight turned
into regimented knowledge replicators.
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Today, it has reduced itself to transforming new
generations into efficient mechanical cogs in the
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ever-rotating wheel of unending production. It all
happened using the currency of ‘social status’.
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This directly led to the social disease of elitism
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that looks down upon the masses and is akin to
closing our sociocultural solar plexus chakra.
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Sociocultural Systems for
Cognitive Needs: Education System
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Homo sapiens had always had the
onus of educating their young ones
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to the level of knowledge that the
former generation had reached up to.
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With Homo sapiens as opposed to with any other
species, it has always been necessary to do so.
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And with the passage of time through their
evolution, our species has been experimenting
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with various ways to do it most effectively
ever since our brain size started enhancing.
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As far as we have reached up to this point
of time, the education system has become
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one of the most important social
institutions in modern human life.
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I always had my reservations about the education
system that we were being subjected to.
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It had dawned upon me as soon as I first set
foot inside a school more than 60 years ago.
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The way this system works is like a machine
churning out manufactured goods on an assembly
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line. The only difference is that it manufactures
graduates in various disciplines of learning.
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The onus of educating the new generation is
on the shoulders of the immediately older one.
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That is how the new generation starts its
journey of growing and developing knowledge.
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And that is how knowledge grows further from the
point that the older generation has brought it to.
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Education System for Junior Classes
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The knowledge that humanity has gathered and
developed up to this point of time is vast.
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It is so vast that no single individual
can ingest it all in its totality. We can,
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at best, have a bird’s eye view of its entire
repertoire and call it our general knowledge.
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That is what we are taught up to our
high school or higher secondary classes.
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General knowledge doesn’t make us
a master in any of its disciplines.
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And, unless we master a discipline in
its entirety, we can neither practice
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it properly nor develop it further.
Education System for Senior Classes
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So, after our high school or
higher secondary education,
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we need to choose any one of these endless number
of disciplines to specialize in. Then, we need to
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study it as wide and as deep as we can or wish to.
Ability to wisely choose what we effectively can
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and wish to study in detail
depends on our aptitude.
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It doesn’t merely depend on what we studied in
our junior classes but on how we studied them.
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And this is where our education
system fails us miserably.
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It doesn’t nurture talent well. It rather
suppresses it to a detrimental level.
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Pitfalls in Our Primary Education
The moment we are made to start our education,
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we are subjected to a complicated array
of academic regimentation. We are taught
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mechanically without any real insight into
the subject on the part of the teacher.
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They teach academics to the naive minds that
have naturally been designed to exploring
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what their elders have in store for them.
Unfortunately, we are discouraged to explore.
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We are rather expected to conform to the authority
by simply practicing the tools of knowledge.
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These tools are like written symbols of
spoken language and mechanically taught
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procedures of mathematical operations.
In addition, we are expected to learn
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uninteresting academic details of scientific
and social achievements of mankind.
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We do it to the satisfaction of the
examining authorities who assess us.
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They grade us based on how much of this
nonsense we were able to vomit out in tests.
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Curiosity Gets Killed
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We start hating academics and try
to avoid it as much as we can.
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Our curiosity gets killed in this mechanical
process of learning. As curiosity gets killed,
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we cannot discover our talents. They rather get
suppressed deep inside us never to show up again.
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Every single child who takes birth on earth
brings at least one talent that s/he can
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develop to master. But that is only in case s/he
is able to discover it in the very first place.
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The best talent we are born with is our
aptitude for a specific discipline of knowledge.
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Humanity Loses An Opportunity
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We are rarely able to discover our talents
and therefore don’t pursue them in the later
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years of our education. We rather pursue
another discipline for some other reason.
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We will never excel in it as much as we would if
we had discovered and pursued our inborn talent.
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As it happens, humanity loses another great
opportunity to benefit from another great talent.
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It is tragic that it loses a talent
in a discipline that never got
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discovered and was lost in the oblivion.
Is it just random that the best talent
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humanity is benefiting from comes mostly
from the echelons of college dropouts?
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Sociocultural Systems for Self-Actualization
Needs: Self-Improvement Industry
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Soft skill development falls under sociocultural
third eye chakra which strives to lead to self
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actualization in the society. The currency it
uses is ‘ambition’. Ambitions spring out of
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the mind alone. Our brains want us to pledge and
commit but our ambitious minds come in the way.
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When ‘ambition’ became more important than
fulfilling self-actualization needs, it defeated
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the whole purpose of self-actualization which
is to let passion and joy flourish within us.
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Achieving goals became more important than the
joy of the process that could take one there.
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It is no wonder, then, that ends
started justifying the means,
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thereby rendering the sociocultural
third-eye chakra firmly shut.
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The self-improvement industry was
born right out of this chakra.
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Self-actualization needs were originally meant
to be fulfilled via soft skill development as
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a personal concern of an individual. It enabled
passion and joy to flourish, driven by curiosity
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to extend and expand hard skills learnt in the
education system. Such passion and joy has the
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power to drive one toward achieving excellence in
their self-actualization pursuits. However, slowly
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and gradually, the currency, namely ‘ambition’,
itself became more important than passion and joy.
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This gave rise to an entirely new industry that we
now know as the ‘self-improvement’ industry which
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commercialized self-actualization. Consequently,
excellence got replaced by perfection.
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Self-actualization needs got
usurped by the currency of ambition.
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Excellence is a perennial process that
never stops, it is rather a way of life.
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On the other hand, perfection is an end in
itself which has no further prospects to improve.
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This ended up closing the sociocultural
third eye chakra generating an army of
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ambitious humans paying lip-service to idea of
excellence while chasing perfection all along.
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Sociocultural Systems for
Transcendence Needs: Organized Religion
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Organized religion falls under
sociocultural crown chakra looking
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forward to transcendence in society.
The currency it uses for the purpose is
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Unfortunately, this currency has corrupted
the genuine need for transcendence
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resulting in multiple religions, almost
all of them at daggers drawn between them.
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The highly revered rituals of ‘faith’ became more
important than the ultimate needs of transcendence
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that they were meant to serve as a currency.
Religion started with the expression of awe
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for natural order and a recognition of the
growth needs of transcendence in society.
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But it soon fragmented itself into
organized religions which ultimately
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devolved into contending systems of belief,
blind faith and fanatic moralistic reverence.
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Religion as an entity started with an expression
of awe over the miraculous events happening
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around a recently evolved brain. But as early Homo
sapiens could not find any rationale for the same,
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they took an easy way out. They constituted
a new element of faith in the supernatural
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which all religions share
with one another till date.
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During both the hunting-gathering
and, later, the agricultural eras,
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the following traits of religiosity prevailed:
Animism | Belief in an afterlife | Shamanism |
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Ancestor worship | High gods who created human
life | High gods who are active in human affairs
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Animism amounts to attributing intent and
lifelike qualities to inanimate objects.
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This might have caused a belief in supernatural
aspects of unexplained natural facts seen around.
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The seed of animism could easily spill
over to a belief in an afterlife, shamanism
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and ancestral worship. Later when hunter-gatherer
communities turned into agricultural communities,
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social hierarchies started coming into
existence. Thus, the egalitarian pattern
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of the hunting-gathering era gave way to
a paradigm of ‘rulers versus the ruled’.
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High gods must have been in tune
with the newly emerging experiences.
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Consequently, a belief in high
gods having created humans
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and then actively controlling their affairs might
have been formed. As a result, the king started
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getting considered to be a representative of these
high gods in controlling his subjects’ lives.
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Today two-third of human population identifies
with one religion or another. But the geographical
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distribution of this percentage is in a state
of flux presently and in future projections.
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For example, at present China is going
through a phase of religious revival.
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Protestant Christianity is growing
at an annual rate of 10% there.
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It has already crossed the 100 million mark.
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It is projected that it will become the world’s
largest Christian population by the year 2030.
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In contrast, the number of believers is sharply
going down in Western Europe. In Scotland,
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59% of its population has gone non-religious
openly, with 66% being women and 55% men.
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This might be a result of people’s exposure to
a scientific outlook and a rational world view
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in developed countries. Science and religion
have always gone along two opposite tangents.
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Both claim to establish the truth but there
is a huge difference in their approaches.
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While science is only one
single body all over the world,
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there are more than 1000 religions, many of
them making claims contradictory to one another.
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Also, science has always proved what it says
is true either logically or statistically
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whereas religion hasn’t been able
to prove even one of its own claims.
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I remember an amusing story from my life when
I had just secured my graduation in electronics
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engineering. I applied for a government job
in Defense Research Development Organization
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as a scientific officer in
one of its laboratories.
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After a few days, I received an interview
call from Union Public Service Commission.
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I headed to its venue to face the
interview on the scheduled date.
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As I reached the venue of the interview, I saw
hundreds of candidates waiting to be interviewed
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for the same post. It was only one single vacancy
and there were so many candidates vying for it,
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it being a premium position. Seeing such a
huge crowd, I immediately made up my mind
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for psychologically getting ready to be rejected.
Mathematically speaking, I had only 0.5% chance
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of getting selected. And the interview board had
to complete all the interviews in one single day.
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Hence everyone was being given around 2.5
minutes to prove their worth for the post.
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After a long wait, came my turn. I entered
the interview hall. There was a board of
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four interviewers headed by the chairman
sitting on the other side of a huge table.
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I greeted them and the chairman offered me a seat
on the lone chair kept in front of their table.
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I was ready to answer any questions they
would ask me for the next 2.5 minutes.
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My application form was lying in front
of the chairman who looked perplexed
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as he pored over it. I waited quietly
to meet his first question with the
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best technically correct answer I could muster.
After a long eerie silence, came the chairman’s
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first question in the form of a blame. He really
attacked me, saying, “What have you written here
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in your form under the “religion” column? You
have written “N.A.”. What do you mean by that?”
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I was amused. I said, “Sir,
N.A. means not applicable.”
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He got offended, “Well, I know
what N.A. means. What I am asking
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is how it’s possible that it’s not applicable.”
I coolly said, “It’s because I don’t have any.”
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“Any what?” he was getting impatient
as well as irritated with me.
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“Religion! I don’t have any religion.”
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“But how’s that possible?” he wasn’t
able to believe what I was saying.
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“It’s possible, sir. You can see one in
front of you sitting here,” I smiled.
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“Don’t your parents have a religion?”
came the next question from him.
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The other three members were absolutely quiet.
“They do,” I said.
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“Then by default you have inherited it
from them,” he tried to make me understand.
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“I don’t think religion is an inheritable entity.
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One needs to develop one’s own faith
to follow a certain religion,” I said.
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He further got more perplexed, “And do you
say you haven’t developed your faith yet?”
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“Yes, I couldn’t,” I said, “and I don’t
think we should develop any faith ever.”
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He wasn’t able to believe what I was saying.
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He almost shrieked, “What are you
talking? Are you a negative personality?”
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I didn’t lose my cool, “No sir,
I am an agnostic personality.”
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“Do you mean atheist?” the inflection
in his voice suggested scorn.
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I still kept my cool, “I am an agnostic.”
“What does that mean?”
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looked like he wasn’t much familiar with
the deep meaning of this particular word.
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I tried to tell him the
differences between, theism,
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atheism and agnosticism. But
he didn’t look convinced.
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We kept discussing on this same topic for
15 long minutes when, suddenly, he realized
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he was under pressure of time. He immediately
said, “Let’s have the technical interview now.”
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He wasn’t looking very pleased with the
direction that our discussion had taken
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exposing his intolerance. Under the influence
of his value system, he might have pre-assessed
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my technical knowledge to be pathetic. Hence, to
show me down, he might have thought of mocking me.
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He asked me the easiest question on the topic at
hand to check if I knew at least that much or not.
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“Can you even draw an adder circuit?”
he was smiling conspiringly.
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“No sir, I don’t remember it
right at the moment,” I said.
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His smile went wider, “You don’t even
know how to draw an adder circuit?”
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his tone oozed with condescension.
“No sir, I do know how
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but not off-hand because I don’t keep my mind
burdened with information alone,” I explained.
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“What’ll you do if you need to draw it during
your work?” he challenged me once again.
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“I will deduce it then and there,”
I offered the immediate solution.
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“And how much time will you take deducing it?”
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he was trying to show that it
wasn’t a feasible solution.
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“Say, 20 seconds,” I threw
his challenge back to him.
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“Here is your paper and here is
your pen. Your time starts now!”
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he started looking at his watch as he said this.
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I was on my job without losing any
time. And when I gave back my paper
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in just 15 seconds with deduction and
drawing, he could not believe his eyes.
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“Did you really deduce it right now
or are you just trying to impress us?”
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he asked, doubting my intentions.
“I don’t think I need to impress you, sir,”
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by this time I had become fed
up of his senile behavior.
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“Okay, that’s it. You can go
now,” he said in a curt voice.
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As I was going back, I heard him saying
in a sorry tone, “God bless you!”
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It was as if he was seeking His pardon on my
behalf. While walking out of the interview hall,
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I checked the time and realized that I
had been in there for full 18 minutes.
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And none of the other three members
of the interview board had asked me
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a single question during all that time.
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I gave up all hopes of getting selected
and started applying elsewhere.
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But, to my utter astonishment, one day I received
a letter informing me that I had been selected.
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I could not believe that such an antagonistic
interview would ever end up in my selection
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for such a coveted position.
Anyway, I joined the job and
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discovered that the chairman of that interview
panel was a deputy director in the laboratory
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and its second in-charge. He didn’t look happy
to see me there and never talked to me cordially.
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By the way, there was another deputy director
in the laboratory who was third in-charge of it.
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He somehow took a liking for me.
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He would often call me to his office after lunch
to have a cup of coffee or tea together. Though I
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was way younger and even way junior to him yet for
some reason, he became fond of our informal chats.
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One day, while we were
chatting, he suddenly asked me,
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“Do you know how you were selected for your job?”
“No!” I said, “Even I was surprised when
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I got the selection letter. There were
hundreds of candidates in the interview,
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many of them being quite experienced as
well. I really wonder how it happened.”
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“You scored the highest points in the
board members’ assessment!” he smiled.
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“But the chairman had sounded quite
annoyed with me in the interview,”
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I put forth my point of doubt.
“That’s why he gave you a score of
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zero out of a maximum of fifty that he
could give,” I saw a smirk on his face
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“Then?” I was really confused now, “ How was it
possible for me to get selected in that case?”
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“You got the highest 150 marks out of 200.
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And it was because the other three members
scored you at the maximum of fifty each.”
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And he burst into a loud
laughter as did I along with him.
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This experience had shown
me the level of orthodoxy
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that believers in religion could go up to!
Religious minds are driven by morality that is
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based on differentiating between ‘good’ and ‘bad’.
Empty minds are driven by curiosity and creativity
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leading to a beautiful life that
is filled with passion and joy.
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To add to this, unluckily religion didn’t go
along sociocultural evolution as a common,
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homogenous entity, unlike business and education.
It may have been so in the very beginning of this
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process of splitting the mind into fragments that
eventually ended up at odds with one another.
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It was initiated by the generation
of a moral fragment in the mind.
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But then this moral fragmentation went a
step further by fragmenting the fragments
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as religion slowly changed from a homogenous
single entity to several diverse religions.
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Religions comprised multiple entities
as sub-fragments of multiple-morals
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within a broad moral fragment. Christian
morals were different from Muslim morals
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as both of them were further different from
Hindu morals and so on. Morals always assume
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a dominating tendency within the mind unlike
instincts. They are aggressive simply because
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they want to spread their message even at the
cost of suppressing and repressing instincts.
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But with the multiplicity of sub-fragmented
morals, the fragmented and then indoctrinated
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mind sides with one of them and decides to
suppress the rest. The Christian sub-fragment
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tries to suppress the Muslim, Hindu,
Buddhist and other morals, for example.
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And this suppression then moves outward from
the mind to the outside physical world. That is
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what culminates into all kinds of religious wars
and conflicts on the planet from time to time.
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And ironically, it doesn’t even stop there.
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There are further sub-sub-fragments that
get generated within sub-fragments as well.
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Shia-Sunni, Protestants-Catholics,
Kshatriya-Shudra et cetera are examples
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of such sub-sub-fragments. These follow the
same pattern of trying to uphold the ones
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that the mind sides with and suppress the rest
in the outside world. It further gives rise to
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newer intra-religious wars and conflicts in the
world, like in Ireland or the Iran-Iraq wars.
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All along our sociocultural evolution, our
minds have gotten more and more complex.
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A complex mind gives birth to the perception of a
similarly complex world. The result has been all
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kinds of religious wars and communal conflicts
killing innumerable people on the planet.
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It is only Homo sapiens who kill the members
of their own species in such an organized way!
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Don’t we need to stop this nonsense now?
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What will happen to all these compromised
sociocultural systems and/ or institutions
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in a society which starts moving toward filling
the holes of Homo sapiens bipedal evolution?
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It is my contention that the said sociocultural
systems/ institutions will dissolve automatically
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in much the same way as opening
the biological chakras ends up
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dissolving them in individual biological systems.
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How would this dissolution
come into manifestation?
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Let us now peep inside for a few glimpses of how
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new social systems could heal themselves
in a society energized by Skeletal Leap.
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Thanks for listening to this episode
of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
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