The Thinker

With the advent of machine, man’s life has certainly changed. He has suddenly been catapulted from cart age to shuttle age. Machine has entered almost every sphere of his life. He has compacted, almost, the entire world in his computer. Sitting in his room, he is connected with the outside world through his tiny computer. Modern war machines, trade, industry, media, communication, and even literature, are controlled by the technological brains, rather than sluggish human brain. Though machine is the creation of human intelligence, it is slowly taking over its many functions. Compared to man’s working (conscious) mind, machine’s capacity of data bank is gigantic. It functions millions times more quickly, efficiently and without the danger of any emotional involvement. Thus during the last two hundred years, man has made tremendous progress in the field of physical sciences. Specially, during the last forty years his accomplishments are more than the total scientific progress made since the entire period of human history. Obviously it all happened because of the advancement of his intelligence. Or is it really so!
It is also a fact that humanity has evolved through many a civilsation and quite a few among them were unique in their history. It is on record, during Mayan, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Babylonian, and still more ancient civilsations of Chinese, Egyptian, and Indus valley, material progress was at its zenith. Though the modern gadgetry was not invented in those times but progress in other spheres of life viz., art, culture, music, architecture, medicines, hygiene, agriculture, trade, industry and general standards of living, was not inferior to today’s standards. Rather in several disciplines they surpassed the current times: excepting physical sciences, these civilisations were far ahead in every other respect. Each civilsation nourished on its values and flourished in their peculiar fields. But the most noticeable commonality amongst them was their twofold development; material development as well as the ‘thought’ development. The driving force was intellect and wisdom. Intellect always projects itself through material projections, whereas ‘thought’ finds its expression through the medium of fine arts, literature, music, besides all that makes the inorganic world so beautiful.

Like every human being the little-self too has been engaged in the quest of ‘Reality’. his way has also been the same as adopted by the scholars i.e. by the medium if ‘intellect’ as this in the only quality of mind which is known to human beings for being conscious of the world around. Can there be any other ‘tool’ in the repository’ of Nature/mind for being conscious of the world or our about own existence/being, other than intellect? None, perhaps! Then man ventured beyond the known spheres of the mind and tried to look deep inside its (mind) portals and to his surprise and wonder he found there were unknown realms---hard disc of the brain--- which were wired to ‘Universal-Consciousness’ .(Newberg’s experiments: “Newberg’s’ experiment consisted of taking brain scans of Tibetan Buddhist meditators as they sat immersed in contemplation. After giving time to sink into meditative trance, he injected them with a radioactive dye. Patterns of the dye’s residues in the brain were later converted into images. Newberg found that certain areas of the brain were altered during deep meditation. Predictably, these included area in the front of the brain that is involved in concentration. But Newberg also found decreased activity in the parietal lobe, one of the parts of the brain that helps orient a person in three-dimensional space. “When people have spiritual experiences they feel they become one with the universe and lose their sense of self,” he said. “We think that may be because of what is happening in that area---if you block that area you lose that boundary between the self and the rest of the world. In doing so you wind up in universal state”.
“Michael Persinger a professor of neuroscience at Laurential University in Sudbury Ontario has been conducting experiments that fit a set of magnetic to a helmet-like device. Persinger runs what amounts to weak electromagnetic signals around the skulls of volunteers. Four in five people, he said, reports a mystical experience, the feeling that there is a sentient being or entity standing behind or near them. Some weep, some feel God has touched them, others become frightened and talk of demons and evil spirits.

“That’s’ in the laboratory” Persinger said “They know they are in the laboratory. Can you imagine what would happen if that happened late at night in a pew or mosque or synagogue?”
Now this is a serious food for thought. Time is not far when we shall to accept the fact that spirituality is part and parcel of our physical composition, not something from other worlds. with love&regards.little-self.