Emancipation
or Enlightenment or Purulent Dogma?
This
piece is the result of a good night sleep without mosquito menace and
optimum blood sugar level (hypoglycemia) in between.
Adequately
compensated with feel good factors (hormones) from chocolates made of
only chocolate butter (free of milk and extra sugar).
No
tea or coffee for almost 24 hours.
Warning
here, nobody with diabetes or low thyroxine with high TSH levels
should try any of the schemes mentioned.
No
rice for eight years on the trot (except string hoppers and hoppers)
was my single health discovery (worse grain on this planet).
No
alcohol for little over one year.
I
was a guinea pig on alcohol as a student experiment (talks eloquently
after the correct amount and win billiards or snooker game by the
smallest of a margin) and I did my own experiment on sleep
deprivation.
Did
not sleep for 48 hours to overcome a bet and slept three days
afterward.
Worse
experiment unlike the alcohol experiment.
I
pity the astronauts in space.
Sleep
deprivation is bad enough but overcoming one atmospheric pressure is
a strain on every organ and the skeletal system.
Never
think of becoming an astronaut for fun.
It
is no fun at all, bordering one’s stupidity and pure subject of
brain washing.
Regarding
sleep, never drive on coffee after an overnight sleep deprivation.
Sure
recipe for accidents.
If
you are feeling sleepy, pull the car to a side and have a deserving
snooze.
Alcohol
affects your snooze and the need for it at the correct time.
One
need 8 hours of sleep, in my case bit more than that, now.
Not
necessarily in one go but ideally in two breaks.
The
preamble has no relevance the what I am going to say.
I
watched a few Youtube presentations (religion, rational thinking,
science and cosmos) and come to few conclusions.
I
admire a few (not many) but hate many who propagate illogical dogmas.
They
use the Nazi Gobble method.
Repeat
the same thing over and over again, thousand times with some
variation.
Only
a few of these predators
focus on reasoning and logic.
Rest
are all rigid dogmas, be that it may be, religion, agnosticism or
communism or socialism or any political or social validity of those
dogmas except perhaps moral validity (depending on the cultural set
up).
This
is why I say come out the dogmatism.
It
leads to emancipation of some sort.
But
there is a trap in it.
One
tries to fill the void with one’s own dogma.
That
is a dangerous expression of freedom to think and express (terrorism
and anti-terrorism polarity) ones
own innate desires.
The
way to handle is to keep the void as it is.
This
is what the meditation teachers teach you but very difficult to
practise.
Emancipation
and renunciation are OK for me but what
about the enlightenment?
That
is a dicey question.
Nobody
knows anything about it.
Perhaps
self hallucination (drugs and alcohol are known to get one there) and
I do not want that ill defined entity entrapping my mind.
I stop at healthy emancipation.
Both Revelation and Enlightenment are two "High Five"biblical words without any meaning.
There is nothing revealed that we already know.
There is nobody who is really enlightened to know the real human predicament with the existing tensions in the world.
Is it Donald Trump, Putin, Rusputin, Ayatulla or Kim Jon in North Korea?
Perhaps I may go for “thinking to think freely” and “the beautiful mind (Somanassa state in Buddhist psychology)” of Professor De Bono strategy.
A
closing remark on science.
We
are one atmosphere, three dimensional thinkers in the material world
of less than 5%.
The
rest of the 95% or more is dark energy and dark matter we know
nothing about except its accelerating expansion and we are heading
for, in eons for nullity or void.
What
we see in the sky is yesterday and never today due to speed of light's
limitation.
Until
we find a method faster than speed of light we will never see the
event horizon, except dark bodies or dark matter.
What
we have is "now, now” of the present limited to our sphere of
activity.
So
make best of what is now.
