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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs! – Podcast Episode 30
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WANTS VS NEEDS: CORRUPTION OF AESTHETIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SAFETY NEEDS! - INTRODUCTION Welcome back to the 30th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! Today’s episode titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs!” will tell you about corruption in industrial complex, big pharma & insurance, military-industrial complex and politics-business nexus. The first casualty, as was the case with our biology, was the sociocultural root chakra. As it stands today, closed sociocultural chakras have blocked the human energy right at the lowest level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, namely physiological and safety needs. SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton] can take through the way it postures its joints. I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally WANTS VS NEEDS: CORRUPTION OF AESTHETIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SAFETY NEEDS! - SHOW NOTES In this enlightening episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure, titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs!”, I explore the intricate relationships between socio-cultural institutions and the pervasive corruption that has taken root within them. Join me as I guide you through a thought experiment inspired by Dr. Albert Einstein, challenging listeners to reflect on the distinctions between needs and wants. Discover how societal wants have increasingly overshadowed genuine needs, leading to a fragmented understanding of our physiological and safety requirements. This episode explores the historical evolution of socio-cultural structures, tracing the origins of corruption from the industrial complex to the military-industrial nexus and the intertwining of politics and business. Learn how the quest for personal ownership and wealth has distorted our priorities, transforming essential needs into mere commodities. As I discuss the implications of this corruption on our health and well-being, I emphasize the importance of returning to a state of balance and understanding. I posit that a collective emptying of the mind is necessary to restore genuine health and foster spontaneous decision-making aligned with our true needs. This thought-provoking episode invites you to consider how the socio-cultural root chakra has been compromised and what steps can be taken to reclaim our health and humanity. Can we learn to prioritize genuine needs over corrupted wants? WANTS VS NEEDS: CORRUPTION OF AESTHETIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SAFETY NEEDS! - CHAPTERS Chapters: (00:00:01) - What is the Corruption in our Social Systems? (00:09:39) - Living a comfortable life (00:14:13) - Power of Business nexus in politics (00:18:37) - Socio-cultural Root Chakra (00:20:31) - What is it that makes us prone to falling in the trap of (00:25:03) - Health of Modern People vs Holistic Healing (00:31:47) - Healthcare and the military (00:42:05) - Art and Entertainment: Verbal Needs WANTS VS NEEDS: CORRUPTION OF AESTHETIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SAFETY NEEDS! - VIDEO WANTS VS NEEDS: CORRUPTION OF AESTHETIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SAFETY NEEDS! - TRANSCRIPT WITH TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00.960,0:00:08.000 Let us do a thought experiment (one of the most favorite tools of one Dr. Albert Einstein). 0:00:08.000,0:00:26.160 Think of yourself as an idealist for a moment. My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: 0:00:26.160,0:00:33.920 A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven. 0:00:33.920,0:00:41.120 Today’s episode will tell you about corruption in industrial complex, big pharma & insurance, 0:00:41.120,0:00:47.120 military-industrial complex and politics-business nexus. 0:00:47.120,0:00:55.120 The first casualty, as was the case with our biology, was the sociocultural root chakra. 0:00:55.120,0:01:01.760 As it stands today, closed sociocultural chakras have blocked the human energy right 0:01:01.760,0:01:10.160 at the lowest level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, namely physiological and safety needs. 0:01:10.160,0:01:17.360 As explained above, the root of the problem lies in faulty cognition of reality whereby societal 0:01:17.360,0:01:24.800 wants function as proxies for social needs. Personal ownership of resources became more 0:01:24.800,0:01:33.280 important than the physiological or aesthetic needs it fulfilled. Thus, money, as a means to 0:01:33.280,0:01:38.960 personal ownership of resources, became a currency for the exchange of the goods and 0:01:38.960,0:01:46.960 services that fulfilled these needs. Sociocultural institutions belonging to the sociocultural root 0:01:46.960,0:01:54.560 chakra include the most sought after core of society at present. Physiological needs comprise 0:01:54.560,0:02:01.600 the biological component of human survival guaranteeing homeostasis to the human body. 0:02:02.320,0:02:08.320 These are provided by the social systems such as industrial complexes for jobs and 0:02:08.320,0:02:13.760 financial complexes to enable and manage transactions using ‘personal ownership’ 0:02:13.760,0:02:20.320 of resources as its main currency. However, this currency turned into a 0:02:20.320,0:02:25.360 source of widespread corruption. Pursuit of Genuine Physiological 0:02:25.360,0:02:34.800 Needs Instead of Its Corrupted Currency, Personal Ownership of Resources (Money) 0:02:34.800,0:02:42.080 Let us do a thought experiment (one of the most favorite tools of one Dr. Albert Einstein). Think 0:02:42.080,0:02:48.160 of yourself as an idealist for a moment. What if you tell me that I will get 0:02:48.160,0:02:55.520 whatever I need whenever I need as much I need unconditionally? 0:02:55.520,0:03:02.480 Imagine what would my reaction be. If I am fearful, controlled by my mind, I 0:03:02.480,0:03:10.720 could easily turn greedy. I may say, “Just change the word need with the word want and I am okay.” 0:03:11.440,0:03:18.640 Needs are physical phenomena whereas wants are psychological in their basic etymology. 0:03:18.640,0:03:24.160 What decides what I need and what decides what I want? 0:03:24.160,0:03:30.560 Aren’t these two entities the calls given by the brain and the mind respectively? 0:03:30.560,0:03:35.600 Back to the thought experiment…had I not been corrupted by my mind, 0:03:35.600,0:03:41.840 I would have been the happiest man on earth to have been offered this proposal by you! I would 0:03:41.840,0:03:48.800 have immediately accepted your proposal and asked you what I need to do for that. 0:03:48.800,0:03:55.600 However, let’s continue with the version of me that IS being driven by fear. 0:03:55.600,0:04:02.080 You say, “Throw the yoke of all your possessions off your shoulders and just be a free man.” 0:04:02.800,0:04:07.680 I may not believe you for a moment and retort, “Why? Do 0:04:07.680,0:04:11.840 YOU want to take away all my possessions?” “I don’t need to…,” you smile. “I don’t 0:04:11.840,0:04:21.680 need to want,” you repeat. “Won’t you like ruling the world? Don’t you want 0:04:21.680,0:04:31.440 that?” I sound stupid to my own self as I ask. “Why would I?” you give a carefree look, 0:04:31.440,0:04:38.640 “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown!” “But what would I do if I get what I need without 0:04:38.640,0:04:46.160 doing anything for getting it?” I am intrigued. “Decide it for yourself if you really feel like 0:04:46.160,0:04:54.240 doing something,” you are still smiling. “It would turn me crazy,” I retort. 0:04:54.240,0:05:00.160 “That you already are,” you show me the mirror, “A slave to your mind!” 0:05:00.160,0:05:06.640 “By the same token, aren’t you a slave to your brain too?” I challenge. 0:05:06.640,0:05:14.160 “My brain is my friend. Your mind is your boss. It keeps you scared with a threat of starving in case 0:05:14.160,0:05:23.520 you don’t earn the right to live,” you sound cool. “And your brain?” I ask again. 0:05:23.520,0:05:30.720 “It doesn’t think of future. It lets me do what I feel like doing right now,” you reveal. 0:05:30.720,0:05:38.400 “YOU do what you feel like doing. What would I do, I don’t know,” I nervously say. 0:05:38.400,0:05:44.320 “Enable me to enable my guarantee that I just gave you!” you start laughing. 0:05:44.320,0:05:48.720 I get taken aback for a moment. Then I start laughing along. 0:05:50.160,0:05:55.200 That ends our thought experiment. It tells us idealism is not as 0:05:55.200,0:06:01.840 impossible as it is presented to be. The entire question swings between two different 0:06:01.840,0:06:09.440 approaches to life, ‘to have’ or ‘to be’. Do we have a gene within us that would 0:06:09.440,0:06:15.840 answer this question? If it says the fittest survives, doesn’t our thought 0:06:15.840,0:06:23.680 experiment hint toward that possibility even when threatened by human-induced climate change? 0:06:23.680,0:06:28.400 Cavemen never felt they ever required any private property. 0:06:28.400,0:06:33.520 If it were in our genes, we would have started going along that track 0:06:33.520,0:06:40.480 right then and there. If we did it later, something new must have conspired to do so. 0:06:41.440,0:06:48.720 I hypothesize, it was simply our mind gone greedy, trying to save itself from 0:06:48.720,0:06:53.440 starving to death in future. We had evolved to grow our 0:06:53.440,0:06:58.160 own food on the fertile land. But we hadn’t evolved to own 0:06:58.160,0:07:05.360 the land primarily and go on expanding its perimeter to the last days of our lives. 0:07:05.360,0:07:11.120 Doing so through putting the yoke of all its stressful burdens on our shoulders took its 0:07:11.120,0:07:17.200 toll on our health. No other species in the entire animal world ever does 0:07:17.200,0:07:25.840 that. And if we got a brain, did we get it for wasting it on such petty concerns? 0:07:25.840,0:07:32.000 We certainly went wrong somewhere when we shifted from hunting-gathering to agriculture 0:07:32.000,0:07:39.120 and personal ownership of resources. We thought it would give us freedom but what 0:07:39.120,0:07:47.120 it gave us was slavery and disease alone. The more personal resource ownership we amassed, 0:07:47.120,0:07:54.240 the more it impoverished us in other ways. Have we ever thought how much energy we waste 0:07:54.240,0:08:01.280 just in the petty pursuit of staying alive and comfortable? In fact, to secure our comfortable 0:08:01.280,0:08:08.160 living in the future, we ‘want’ to amass resources that are many times more than we would ever really 0:08:08.160,0:08:15.040 need. Doesn’t this amount to stealing from others who could have used those resources 0:08:15.040,0:08:23.600 to live a comfortable life? But unluckily 80% of the human wealth lies under the control of 20% 0:08:23.600,0:08:32.560 of the human population. The rest 80% live a life of have nots. And majority of these 0:08:32.560,0:08:41.280 20% people has acquired the 80% of the human wealth through unethical if not illegal means. 0:08:41.280,0:08:46.880 Here are two quotes of this Pareto’s principle of 20-80 distribution… 0:08:46.880,0:08:52.800 Pareto’s observation was in connection with population and wealth. Pareto noticed that 0:08:52.800,0:09:00.640 approximately 80% of Italy’s land was owned by 20% of the population. He then carried out surveys on 0:09:00.640,0:09:08.240 a variety of other countries and found to his surprise that a similar distribution applied. 0:09:08.240,0:09:12.240 Courtesy Wikipedia 2022 0:09:12.240,0:09:17.520 A chart that gave the effect a very visible and comprehensible form, the so-called 0:09:17.520,0:09:24.640 “champagne glass” effect, was contained in the 1992 United Nations Development Program Report, 0:09:25.920,0:09:31.120 which showed that distribution of global income is very uneven, 0:09:31.120,0:09:39.520 with the richest 20% of the world’s population receiving 82.7% of the world’s income. 0:09:39.520,0:09:43.680 Courtesy Wikipedia 2022 0:09:43.680,0:09:49.120 If we don’t have sufficient ownership of resources in order to live a comfortable life, 0:09:49.120,0:09:56.640 we will keep dreaming of it all the time. If we have way more resources than needed, it keeps us 0:09:56.640,0:10:05.440 too busy not to lose them and, therefore, to grow them further. Why? It is because nothing 0:10:05.440,0:10:13.200 is sufficient for human greed which is driven by the human fear of losing everything one has. 0:10:13.200,0:10:21.360 In both cases, we are not living a life full of freedom. We are doomed to remain slaves to the 0:10:21.360,0:10:29.440 same wicked design that we ourselves created as our sociocultural structure. It not only robs us 0:10:29.440,0:10:36.480 personally of our joy of living a free life but also socially of the countless geniuses hidden 0:10:36.480,0:10:44.480 in broad daylight amidst us. This is because they never become free to exhibit their talents 0:10:44.480,0:10:52.400 while they are busy dreaming of and toiling for the ownership of a bigger chunk of resources. 0:10:52.400,0:10:59.360 Slaves never enjoy. They don’t enjoy because they are not free. Slave holders never enjoy 0:10:59.360,0:11:05.520 either. They don’t enjoy because they are busy keeping slaves as slaves forever. 0:11:05.520,0:11:13.680 Hence their slaves don’t let them be free. They become the slaves of their slaves. I 0:11:13.680,0:11:18.080 still remember a couplet that I had read in my early childhood: 0:11:18.080,0:11:26.320 Leave your birthplace, And roam around the world; Refusing either to be a slave, Or a slave holder 0:11:26.320,0:11:34.720 I wouldn’t be surprised if you are asking as you read this, “Who decides what is comfortable?”. 0:11:34.720,0:11:41.920 Well, it is my contention that ‘Skeletally Leapt” humans, operating primarily from their brains, 0:11:41.920,0:11:48.800 would answer that question organically and would arrive at similar, if not the same, answers as a 0:11:48.800,0:11:55.200 society. Therefore, we don’t really need to take any direct corrective action in order to resolve 0:11:55.200,0:12:03.520 this dilemma. We just need to empty our mind via Skeletal Leap to regain our health. And leave it 0:12:03.520,0:12:10.400 to our brain to take the right spontaneous decisions. What constitutes a comfortable 0:12:10.400,0:12:17.200 life would be as obvious to them the same way that existence of matter is self-evident to science and 0:12:17.200,0:12:26.640 that of life is self-evident to each one of us. Sociocultural Root Chakra: Industrial Complex 0:12:26.640,0:12:32.640 The first 6000 yearsh1 after the transition from the mode of hunting-gathering to that of 0:12:32.640,0:12:38.640 agriculture and cattle-rearing resulted in two strong social institutions: 0:12:38.640,0:12:46.160 business and the state. Business was in the rudimentary form of loosely organized crafts, 0:12:46.160,0:12:53.600 trades and services while the state gradually evolved into aggressive empires that constantly 0:12:53.600,0:13:01.920 fought with one another and extended their control over further chunks of lands and populations. 0:13:01.920,0:13:08.640 Everything remained in flux for a very long period of around the next 6,000 years. Empires 0:13:08.640,0:13:16.800 kept changing hands by new power centers forcing businesses to keep changing their currencies. 0:13:16.800,0:13:22.720 Much later, after the Industrial Revolution in Europe took place in the eighteenth century, 0:13:22.720,0:13:28.880 businesses were able to revolutionize their speed of production. Their sizes started 0:13:28.880,0:13:33.440 getting bigger and bigger needing bigger markets for their products 0:13:33.440,0:13:40.560 and more raw materials for their production. This started an era of certain European nations 0:13:40.560,0:13:48.560 colonizing far-flung countries in Asia, Africa and South America mainly for the resources that 0:13:48.560,0:13:55.680 lay untapped therein. The ones that missed the bus then tried to compensate later by 0:13:55.680,0:14:02.560 waging the two World Wars that they eventually lost. Still, these two wars left the imperial 0:14:02.560,0:14:09.680 powers’ control on their colonies severely depleted. They were forced to move out, 0:14:09.680,0:14:16.320 limiting them back to their own homelands. Since the world came out of the trend of 0:14:16.320,0:14:22.080 nations attacking others to extend their boundaries and control, political control 0:14:22.080,0:14:28.640 has given way to business control all over the world. The power of big business has assumed 0:14:28.640,0:14:36.320 the size of financial empires, bestowing them with real powers to manipulate governments. 0:14:36.320,0:14:42.560 Business morphed into a profit generating machine more than a responsible facilitator of comforts 0:14:42.560,0:14:50.720 and innovations. Politics-business nexus began centralizing unprecedented powers to control 0:14:50.720,0:14:59.840 almost every single aspect of people’s lives. As of today, business as an entity has started 0:14:59.840,0:15:05.360 controlling every single aspect of our life on earth. 0:15:05.360,0:15:14.080 Sociocultural Root Chakra: Politics-Business Nexus Power got concentrated in the hands of the cunning 0:15:14.080,0:15:21.040 and the corrupt. And they took extra care to ensure that it never slipped off their hands. 0:15:21.920,0:15:27.840 All the instruments of the state that existed in the name of serving the masses actually 0:15:27.840,0:15:34.480 started being co-opted by secret agenda. These agenda took care that the cunning 0:15:34.480,0:15:41.440 and the corrupt were able to maintain their control over people’s lives and prosperity. 0:15:41.440,0:15:45.440 Countries were never a part of the package that we received as 0:15:45.440,0:15:53.120 we evolved into a thinking species on earth. What was offered to us was an unnamed vast 0:15:53.120,0:16:00.000 expanse of land to live and move around on. This nexus between the state and the 0:16:00.000,0:16:08.400 business threatens the very welfare of humanity. Business, as an entity, has grown so powerful that 0:16:08.400,0:16:15.280 it can even make or break political structures anywhere. Both of them have their respective 0:16:15.280,0:16:21.920 vested interests which generally don’t align with the genuine interests of the very populace 0:16:21.920,0:16:27.840 that they each claim to ‘serve’. Human-induced climate change is 0:16:27.840,0:16:36.400 a direct outcome of this misalignment. During the COP26, the yearly UN climate summit 0:16:36.400,0:16:44.800 held in Glasgow in 2021, the well-known climate activist Greta Thunberg protested in Glasgow, 0:16:44.800,0:16:52.080 saying COP26 wasn’t leading us anywhere. Only pledges and commitments aren’t going to stop 0:16:52.080,0:17:01.040 temperature from rising beyond 1.5C. We do need to implement them under a strict regimen holding all 0:17:01.040,0:17:09.040 parties accountable to their commitments. COP27 was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 0:17:09.040,0:17:17.760 from 6 November until 20 November 2022. Its credibility was dealt a serious blow by the 0:17:17.760,0:17:26.880 absence of big powers, Russia and China. COP28, held from 30 November to 13 December 0:17:26.880,0:17:34.880 2023 at Expo City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates received widespread criticism 0:17:34.880,0:17:44.000 as it lacked a clear-cut time-based commitment to either fossil fuel phase-out or phase-down. 0:17:44.000,0:17:51.200 China and India did not even sign the pledge to triple their output of renewable energy by the 0:17:51.200,0:18:01.280 year 2030 and committed to coal power instead. COP29 held from 11 November to 22 November 0:18:01.280,0:18:11.440 2024 in Baku, Ajerbaijan couldn’t break any new ground too, limiting itself to lip service alone. 0:18:11.440,0:18:17.920 Who will ensure that the targets of these summits are met before it is too late? 0:18:17.920,0:18:23.200 Unluckily, here again, the national ambitions of the politics-business 0:18:23.200,0:18:30.320 nexus are coming in the way of its success. The point of no return is very close and, 0:18:30.320,0:18:36.560 when it arrives, it will be no less than Nero playing the fiddle while Rome was burning! 0:18:37.280,0:18:43.120 This, though, is only half the story of the sociocultural root chakra. 0:18:43.120,0:18:47.920 The other half of the sociocultural root chakra got closed by the corruption of our 0:18:47.920,0:18:54.880 safety needs through the ‘currency’ we know as ‘public welfare’. Safety needs comprise 0:18:54.880,0:19:00.960 healthcare along with security. These are provided by healthcare facilities, 0:19:00.960,0:19:11.120 judiciary for providing justice, army and warfare for defense and governments for making policies. 0:19:11.120,0:19:18.000 Sociocultural Root Chakra: Big Pharma & Health Insurance 0:19:18.000,0:19:25.280 Healthcare has, of course, helped the masses in a great way but only to manage ailing conditions, 0:19:25.280,0:19:34.080 not curing them permanently. It definitely did its bit in surgical interventions excellently but then 0:19:34.080,0:19:42.080 fell short of energizing society cyclically. As far as judicial systems are concerned, 0:19:42.080,0:19:47.680 they do their job only up to the point where the political system at the helm 0:19:47.680,0:19:54.800 of power doesn’t get challenged. After that point is reached, politics-judiciary 0:19:54.800,0:20:00.960 nexus immediately gets created by those in political power at the moment in a covert 0:20:00.960,0:20:07.760 dictatorial way. We have seen it happening in more than one countries in the recent past. 0:20:08.720,0:20:14.320 Similarly, public welfare got diminished by sloganeering that takes center stage rather than 0:20:14.320,0:20:22.320 fulfilling safety needs in reality. Armies have always remained an instrument of offense rather 0:20:22.320,0:20:31.520 than genuine defense for safety. Warfare has been a way of life along the passage of history. 0:20:31.520,0:20:36.960 What essentially is it that makes us prone to falling in the trap of an unhealthy life? 0:20:37.760,0:20:44.800 An Unhealthy Fragmented Mind: As already described in Episode 26 in detail, 0:20:44.800,0:20:51.840 a fragmented mind is an unhealthy mind. Okay, but what exactly do we mean by 0:20:51.840,0:20:56.480 the fragmentation of mind? Well, fragmentation simply 0:20:56.480,0:21:02.800 means divided in two or more parts rather than being one single entity as a whole. 0:21:03.440,0:21:10.960 When it comes to an undivided mind, it means a mind focused at one single thing at one given 0:21:10.960,0:21:20.560 time. It happens when the mind is emptied of all its motivations and left alone with its passion. 0:21:20.560,0:21:27.200 From Interest to Involvement to Focus: When the mind is focused at one single thing 0:21:27.200,0:21:36.480 like this, it works at its best. All its energies get aligned, producing a laser-like effect in 0:21:36.480,0:21:43.040 order to deal with the concern in question. Such focus comes with absolute involvement in 0:21:43.040,0:21:48.960 the process that the mind is busy with. But generally, the mind lacks that 0:21:48.960,0:21:54.560 level of involvement in almost anything it lays its hands on. 0:21:54.560,0:21:59.680 Why? Simply because it is not REALLY interested in it! 0:22:00.400,0:22:05.760 It is interested in what it is going to get out of it. 0:22:05.760,0:22:14.480 Herein lies the biggest lacuna of human health, i.e., the way humanity lives an unhealthy life. 0:22:14.480,0:22:21.040 Passion Vs Motivation: We do an action not because that action 0:22:21.040,0:22:28.160 is our passion. We rather do it based on the motivation for what it is going to reward us with. 0:22:28.880,0:22:36.720 We act out of motivation, not out of passion. If motivation is the driving force behind our 0:22:36.720,0:22:42.960 mental action, it has already fragmented our mind. Mind is doing one thing in the 0:22:42.960,0:22:49.600 present and thinking about another in the future or the past, for that matter. 0:22:49.600,0:22:56.400 It is not really involved in the action, simply because it is not really interested in the action. 0:22:57.120,0:23:02.160 Motivation Is A Mirage: It is interested in something other than 0:23:02.160,0:23:08.640 acting in the present. It is rather the action of dreaming about the future when it hopefully will 0:23:08.640,0:23:14.560 have rewarded us with its outcome. Motivation and passion don’t ever 0:23:14.560,0:23:20.880 go hand in hand with each other. Motivation comes from outside. It is 0:23:20.880,0:23:25.520 needed only when we are not passionate about what we are doing from within. 0:23:26.320,0:23:32.720 In that sense, we can think of punishment as its opposite. If we are not passionate, 0:23:32.720,0:23:39.600 we are shown a carrot to do a thing to the best of our efficiency. If that fails, a rod 0:23:39.600,0:23:47.120 as punishment is the next option that is applied. If we are passionate from within, we neither need 0:23:47.120,0:23:56.160 a carrot as motivation nor a rod as punishment. The greed for a carrot or the fear of a rod can 0:23:56.160,0:24:03.040 only make cosmetic enhancements in efficiency. Neither can ever match the efficiency that comes 0:24:03.040,0:24:08.720 from passion for the action at hand. This is simply because the reward-punishment 0:24:08.720,0:24:15.120 approach doesn’t enjoy the process, it is rather preoccupied with outcome alone. 0:24:15.840,0:24:20.320 But humanity performs almost all its actions out of motivation for 0:24:20.320,0:24:29.760 the outcome, not out of passion for the action. The results are always much less than optimal. 0:24:29.760,0:24:36.800 It further fragments our mind, looking for an even stronger motivation the next time. Our 0:24:36.800,0:24:44.080 petty vision keeps us limited but still satisfied in just doing the job a little better each time. 0:24:44.080,0:24:49.040 But it is never going to happen! We may come up with various acceptable 0:24:49.040,0:24:54.880 outcomes that our society has become accustomed to. But we will never be able 0:24:54.880,0:25:03.280 to come up with an optimally excellent outcome generating an exhilarating experience in life. 0:25:03.280,0:25:07.680 Mind Affecting Body: This was all about the 0:25:07.680,0:25:14.000 dynamics of an unhealthy mind in action. What about its effects on the body? 0:25:14.000,0:25:19.520 The body is responsible for healthy physiological processes, after all. 0:25:19.520,0:25:25.600 Well, it turns out that an unhealthy mind makes the body unhealthy too. 0:25:25.600,0:25:28.800 When two opposite driving forces pull the mind in two 0:25:28.800,0:25:36.960 opposite directions, the body mirrors the same. This results largely due to the nerves carrying 0:25:36.960,0:25:43.040 two or more opposing signals from the brain. These conflicting signals confound the muscles 0:25:43.040,0:25:50.000 to move in two or more opposite directions. In such a situation, it becomes physically 0:25:50.000,0:25:55.360 impossible for the muscles to follow such opposing signals from the brain. 0:25:55.360,0:26:01.200 Fragmentation Generates Stress: An unhealthy fragmented mind 0:26:01.200,0:26:05.840 makes the brain go haywire. When the muscles are not able 0:26:05.840,0:26:10.880 to follow the conflicting signals from the brain, what do they do? 0:26:10.880,0:26:16.400 They just get set in a state of limbo, which turns them rigid. 0:26:16.400,0:26:20.800 Rigidified involuntary muscles inside the body as well as the 0:26:20.800,0:26:28.480 voluntary ones outside it turn the body rigid. This rigidity manifests itself in the body’s 0:26:28.480,0:26:35.120 internal physiological processes as well as its external actions. 0:26:35.120,0:26:41.520 This is how mental stress, which is nothing but a state of fragmented mind, turns into physical 0:26:41.520,0:26:49.120 stress. It debilitates the body and renders it prone to all kinds of lifestyle diseases. 0:26:49.120,0:26:53.040 Holistic Healing Vs Modern Pharmaceutical Medicine: 0:26:53.760,0:27:00.640 Holistic healing is a philosophical approach to healing. It stands 180o opposite to the approach 0:27:00.640,0:27:08.320 of modern pharmaceutical medicine. This is as far as taking care of human health is concerned. 0:27:08.320,0:27:13.520 Pharmaceutical medicine, also known as ‘Big Pharma’, is a big business with its 0:27:13.520,0:27:20.880 size being over one trillion U.S. dollars per year. It is very natural that business will do 0:27:20.880,0:27:28.080 its best never to let its grip loosen on such a large market. Especially when an alternative 0:27:28.080,0:27:33.600 approach such as holistic healing starts growing roots in the mindset of the masses. 0:27:34.240,0:27:39.840 I would like to point out here that it is not a mere coincidence that, whenever a social 0:27:39.840,0:27:46.560 institution such as pharmaceutical medicine attempts to fulfill a real safety need (health, 0:27:46.560,0:27:53.920 in this case), the already corrupted institution of business takes over. It is much the same way 0:27:53.920,0:27:59.760 that an individual human body in which the root chakra is closed is prone to the higher chakras 0:27:59.760,0:28:07.760 getting closed as well. No wonder then, that we are dealing with “too big to fail” monsters such 0:28:07.760,0:28:16.240 as politics-business nexus, politics-judiciary nexus, ‘big pharma’ and many other harmful nexuses 0:28:16.240,0:28:22.720 that we will talk further about. Scientific Validity: 0:28:22.720,0:28:28.320 The way big business thwarts an alternative approach to healing is by challenging its 0:28:28.320,0:28:35.360 scientific validity. Its main assertion is that any such procedures need to undergo 0:28:35.360,0:28:42.400 strict laboratory testing. Health authorities always look for convincing statistical data to 0:28:42.400,0:28:48.480 establish the efficacy of any new approach to address human health. 0:28:48.480,0:28:54.640 But in doing so, the field of pharmaceutical medicine ignores the most basic philosophy of 0:28:54.640,0:29:01.920 healing which is to do away with the root cause of any health problem. It is not sufficient to do 0:29:01.920,0:29:09.280 away with the symptoms of the problem alone. If the symptoms alone are done away with, 0:29:09.280,0:29:15.840 the problem tends to relapse. Almost everyone has experienced this. That is, 0:29:15.840,0:29:23.360 perhaps, why the modern medical approach calls their procedures ‘treatments’ and not ‘cures’. 0:29:23.360,0:29:28.080 Treatment Vs Cure: Healing, on the other hand, 0:29:28.080,0:29:33.520 concerns itself with curing an illness permanently as opposed to treating it 0:29:33.520,0:29:41.600 temporarily by focussing on its symptoms alone. Treating symptoms temporarily can be a much 0:29:41.600,0:29:48.080 swifter process than curing the root cause permanently. This is the reason why modern 0:29:48.080,0:29:54.960 pharmaceutical medicine has gained acceptance among the masses. In the age of fast food, 0:29:54.960,0:30:02.720 people look for fast medicine as well. It doesn’t matter if it damages their health in the long run. 0:30:02.720,0:30:09.680 Treating Symptoms Alone Spoils Health: How does treating only symptoms damage 0:30:09.680,0:30:15.040 health in the long run? It does so in two main ways: 0:30:16.000,0:30:22.560 First, as the symptoms temporarily disappear, the patients psychologically feel that the 0:30:22.560,0:30:29.600 problem has been eliminated. Hence they revert to their old lifestyles that had caused the 0:30:29.600,0:30:37.120 problem in the very first place. As a result, the problem relapses after some time turning 0:30:37.120,0:30:43.840 them weaker and weaker every time it does. Second, the symptoms cannot be naturally 0:30:43.840,0:30:50.000 eliminated without addressing the causative factors. What pharmaceutical medicine actually 0:30:50.000,0:30:57.120 does is that it suppresses the symptoms artificially by sending an army of antibodies 0:30:57.120,0:31:03.040 from outside. It doesn’t strengthen the antibodies that the innate immune system 0:31:03.040,0:31:10.240 generates within. The immune system is just not given enough time or chance to fight the 0:31:10.240,0:31:17.760 illness with its own natural antibodies. As a result, in the long run, it gets 0:31:17.760,0:31:23.600 conditioned not to be able to generate these antibodies efficiently anymore. 0:31:23.600,0:31:29.760 It leads to incrementally reduced immunity in the mind-body system after taking every 0:31:29.760,0:31:36.000 course of modern pharmaceutical medicine. Every new relapse of the same condition 0:31:36.000,0:31:43.680 proves to be more serious than the former, complicating the treatment more complex each time. 0:31:43.680,0:31:50.400 Health deteriorates further! Lifestyle Diseases: 0:31:50.400,0:31:56.480 Apart from normal acute diseases, there are more permanent lifestyle diseases too. 0:31:56.480,0:32:04.000 migraines | diabetes | hypothyroid | hyperthyroid | hypertension | heart 0:32:04.000,0:32:10.800 conditions | acidity | constipation | obesity | liver cirrhosis | kidney 0:32:10.800,0:32:16.240 failure | asthma | anxiety | depression | and many more. 0:32:17.040,0:32:23.040 Unfortunately, modern pharmaceutical medicine doesn’t have any permanent cure for them. It 0:32:23.040,0:32:29.680 only has a few options to merely manage the above-listed conditions somehow. 0:32:29.680,0:32:34.080 Role of Money: Significant resources are required 0:32:34.080,0:32:41.680 in carrying out such monitored tests on sample sets of patients. ‘Big Pharma’ is the entity that 0:32:41.680,0:32:49.120 funds this research and then has to make it all back by lobbying for, marketing and force-feeding 0:32:49.120,0:32:58.160 medicines that only cure symptoms to a populace that, at best, gets habituated and, at worst, gets 0:32:58.160,0:33:05.520 addicted to them. It is something like pop music and popular movies selling way more than classical 0:33:05.520,0:33:13.920 ones or fast food more than nutritious diet. Both time and resources go against holistic 0:33:13.920,0:33:20.640 healing procedures. They aren’t effectively able to carry out monitored tests on large 0:33:20.640,0:33:26.080 enough sample sizes of patients for a long enough time. Hence they are at a 0:33:26.080,0:33:33.280 loss to show better statistical results in a scientifically convincing manner. 0:33:33.280,0:33:38.480 It is very much like the rich becoming richer even if inefficient, and the poor 0:33:38.480,0:33:45.200 becoming poorer even if more virtuous. Healthcare also brings in another 0:33:45.200,0:33:51.120 big business as a huge commercial activity called health insurance. 0:33:51.920,0:33:58.960 It benefits from people’s fear of falling ill or else dying prematurely, both of which have 0:33:58.960,0:34:07.120 scary consequences to deal with. There is also a much costlier fear of losing what one has, 0:34:07.120,0:34:15.040 including one’s business and costly belongings. In a healthy society supported by strong pillars 0:34:15.040,0:34:23.760 of closely-knit communities, such fears wouldn’t have rooted themselves deep enough. But since that 0:34:23.760,0:34:32.400 is not what it is, an individual feels alienated, scared of being left alone in any such emergency. 0:34:33.200,0:34:38.160 The only available option one finds to feel reasonably safe and secure 0:34:38.160,0:34:46.800 is a legally binding insurance to take care in case any such casualty happens. And ironically, 0:34:46.800,0:34:54.080 the agency that provides this feeling of safety is one of the biggest businesses on earth. 0:34:54.800,0:35:00.320 Although it does provide the feeing of a legal safety, the socio-psychological 0:35:00.320,0:35:07.200 security network is awfully missing. On top of it, recurring payments for 0:35:07.200,0:35:14.080 various kinds of insurance add up fast to a considerable sum to part with, every month. 0:35:14.800,0:35:21.360 The insurance companies have the last laugh with a heavy bank balance at their disposal. 0:35:21.360,0:35:29.680 Even after the legal safety is purchased, the lonely individual mind never sits relaxed! 0:35:29.680,0:35:37.680 It is always the mind that fears. Brain simply acts in a passionately focused manner if needed. 0:35:37.680,0:35:44.880 Sociocultural Root Chakra: Military-Industrial Complex 0:35:44.880,0:35:53.200 Army - A Social Institution Licensed to Kill: Army is one of the most weird social 0:35:53.200,0:35:58.240 institutions that Homo sapiens ever built on earth! 0:35:58.240,0:36:04.720 Is it possible for a sensitive soldier to kill an enemy soldier without feeling bad about it? 0:36:05.360,0:36:12.240 Killing a man is not like killing an animal. Had it been so, consuming human flesh could 0:36:12.240,0:36:20.400 have been a norm like eating animal flesh is. But we don’t eat our own species simply because 0:36:20.400,0:36:28.240 we sense a common link among us. Even the thought of doing so invokes a strong revulsion not only 0:36:28.240,0:36:35.120 in our mind but in our body too. Won’t a real killing of a real man 0:36:35.120,0:36:40.800 invoke a similar reaction in someone with a normal level of sensitivity? 0:36:40.800,0:36:48.640 It should! It ought to! Sensitivity Vs Insensitivity: 0:36:48.640,0:36:53.520 If it doesn’t, it simply shows that the person concerned is not 0:36:53.520,0:36:59.520 sensitive enough to feel bad about it. But then, throughout the history of 0:36:59.520,0:37:06.640 mankind there have been armies invading other armies to kill soldiers in wars. 0:37:06.640,0:37:12.640 Who are these people who do so and don’t ever feel a tinge about it? 0:37:12.640,0:37:18.480 One can only infer that the human mind can certainly be trained to become insensitive enough 0:37:18.480,0:37:25.520 not to feel bad about killing other humans. But is that a healthy state to achieve? 0:37:26.400,0:37:33.760 What implications will such insensitivity have on the mental health of the person concerned? 0:37:33.760,0:37:40.080 The real act of love depends on sensitivity in order for its subtleties to be felt! Will 0:37:40.080,0:37:47.440 a killer ever be able to love another human being with all the soft and tender feelings? 0:37:47.440,0:37:49.600 Certainly not! 0:37:49.600,0:37:54.560 His/her act of love would also be something like an act of winning a war. 0:37:55.360,0:38:01.360 An Army Against Another Army: That was from the perspective of an 0:38:01.360,0:38:07.280 individual soldier who is trained to kill. Let’s ponder upon it from a 0:38:07.280,0:38:13.040 totally different perspective now. How can the collective humanity justify 0:38:13.040,0:38:21.840 raising armies aimed at killing other humans? What turns certain armies enemy to one another? 0:38:21.840,0:38:30.080 Soldiers in the two enemy armies don’t even know one another, let alone being each other’s enemies! 0:38:30.080,0:38:35.360 The same enemies might have been the best of friends, had they met one another in different 0:38:35.360,0:38:41.920 circumstances elsewhere in life. Why all this enmity? 0:38:41.920,0:38:47.520 And who can guarantee it will continue like this in the future? On retirement, 0:38:47.520,0:38:54.080 they may settle down in some foreign land and end up being next door neighbors. They may even turn 0:38:54.080,0:39:01.120 out to be passionately fond of each other! Anything is possible! We just investigated 0:39:01.120,0:39:06.880 one such hypothetical situation. Even if some lands are spared being 0:39:06.880,0:39:14.400 tagged as adversaries by the political bosses, our sensitivities may never be with them. We may turn 0:39:14.400,0:39:22.240 insensitive to the people residing in those lands. We inherited this beautiful earth and 0:39:22.240,0:39:29.440 we divided it into countries and nationalities making it look so ugly! 0:39:29.440,0:39:36.720 In today’s world, this enmity is further strengthened by mainly two kinds of narratives. 0:39:36.720,0:39:42.880 The first one is the border disputes that generally afflict neighboring nations. 0:39:42.880,0:39:48.640 The second narrative has to do with the ideological differences. Nations tend to 0:39:48.640,0:39:56.080 resist worldviews that affect the kind of society they have designed for themselves, even if such 0:39:56.080,0:40:03.840 resistance comes from thousands of miles away. Any suspicious move by one is interpreted as a 0:40:03.840,0:40:09.760 conspiracy on their behalf intending to devour the very existence of the other. 0:40:09.760,0:40:16.960 In such a scenario, every nation is always in a constant state of paranoia. 0:40:16.960,0:40:23.360 Politicians very well know how to create narratives benefiting them in strengthening 0:40:23.360,0:40:30.160 their control on the internal politics of their own states. They can easily turn them 0:40:30.160,0:40:37.280 as a dangerous threat to their very existence as a nation. A sprawling wave of fear spreads 0:40:37.280,0:40:43.600 all over in the minds of its inhabitants who, then, are ready to unconditionally support 0:40:43.600,0:40:51.920 their rulers. The armies are alerted, recruiting more soldiers and purchasing new lethal arms for 0:40:51.920,0:41:00.640 them. Everyone shuns their brains, panicking and acting emotionally in a haphazard manner. 0:41:01.360,0:41:07.360 We have seen it happening all around the world for various political motives. 0:41:07.360,0:41:12.400 Fast Forward to The Present Day: Let us fast forward to the present 0:41:12.400,0:41:17.520 day scenario of the state. The state changed its form in 0:41:17.520,0:41:23.280 almost all countries and nationalities from feudal kingdoms to the so-called democratic 0:41:23.280,0:41:29.120 republics. They should actually have been called plutocratic republics instead. 0:41:29.840,0:41:37.120 The dominance of resources in the present form of money still persists as far as formation of the 0:41:37.120,0:41:43.520 governments in all countries and nationalities is concerned. It was only the form of the state 0:41:43.520,0:41:51.040 that changed, not its essential character. The cunning and the corrupt are still in 0:41:51.040,0:41:57.920 power in every state of the world. Thanks to the power of money that gets them elected to 0:41:57.920,0:42:05.920 represent millions of people under the mask of patriotism. This is now an irrefutable fact. 0:42:05.920,0:42:09.920 Aesthetic Needs Arts and entertainment 0:42:09.920,0:42:16.400 networks are social institutions that fall under sociocultural sacral chakra arising from the 0:42:16.400,0:42:26.320 suppression/ repression of sexual gratification. The currencies it uses are ‘fame’ and ‘celebrity’. 0:42:26.320,0:42:33.920 The growth needs that these institutions aim to fulfill are aesthetic needs. However, 0:42:33.920,0:42:40.320 these aesthetic needs got corrupted by the currency of ‘fame’ and ‘celebrity’ into phenomena 0:42:40.320,0:42:48.400 such as the ‘star system’ in the film industry. And since the suppression/ repression of sexual 0:42:48.400,0:42:56.320 gratification was an intensive as well as an extensive phenomenon, almost everyone looked 0:42:56.320,0:43:05.280 forward to aesthetic experiences either in the form of a creator or else a consumer. Consuming 0:43:05.280,0:43:13.520 was way easier than creating aesthetic experiences offering day-dreams to them. Naturally, 0:43:13.520,0:43:21.920 consumers of such aesthetic experiences found an element of entertainment in them. As a result, 0:43:21.920,0:43:30.320 such experiences started pulling in huge crowds to their performances. Their creators and performers 0:43:30.320,0:43:38.160 started acquiring fame and celebrity resulting in a special status for them in society. This helped 0:43:38.160,0:43:46.560 them to not only become rich but also objects of desire for their consumers. This also helped 0:43:46.560,0:43:53.360 them in coming out of suppression/ repression of their sexual gratification. Soon, they started 0:43:53.360,0:44:00.640 acquiring a larger than life stature in society, epitomizing its most sought after desires. 0:44:01.520,0:44:09.360 Thus, art, the purpose of which was to fulfill aesthetic needs got waylaid by the artist and, 0:44:09.360,0:44:14.960 consequently, the sociocultural sacral chakra got closed. 0:44:14.960,0:44:22.400 Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode, 0:44:22.400,0:44:29.920 I will tell you about corruption in marriage, organized sport, and nation state. 0:44:29.920,0:44:33.840 Be a part of Skeletal Leap Community! 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