-- *Mar*Below is a *carefully edited, refined, and strengthened* version of your text. I preserved your philosophical voice, ecological urgency, and poetic metaphors, while improving clarity, coherence, and flow.
If you want it to be *more poetic*, *more academic*, or *shorter*, I can revise again. ------------------------------ *The Enemy-Mind* *Revised and Improved Version* *YM Sarma* Today, health depends more on the quality of our thoughts than ever before. But thought itself has become impoverished, because the mind grows lonely when nature is destroyed. The vast ecological collapse unfolding around us remains unseen—not because it is small, but because the human eye perceives only a tiny fraction of total reality. The living world that once reassured, energized, and sustained us through countless forms of symbiosis is falling silent. Flora and fauna that once nourished our minds are vanishing under relentless pressure. The modern idea of success has shrunk to *economic success*. And today nearly all economic activity is rooted in the destruction of nature. No organism breathes happiness in such a world. One of the greatest failures of our education system is that it teaches nothing about the emotional life of other beings or the emotional state of the Biosphere itself. Every discipline has been overtaken by a mechanical paradigm. Even psychology is reduced to a Newtonian mechanics of behavior, and even religion attempts to disguise itself as a Cartesian science. In this reduction, the emotional dimension of life is erased from our understanding. Economic success can never be real success—the kind that brings genuine happiness. We pursue economic gain throughout our lives only to end in anxiety, inner unrest, and a quiet neurosis. Real success lies in the symbiosis of nature. Happiness emerges only when we live as part of the ecological web. Yet today we destroy nature while forcing it into economic subjugation—the most ruthless domination imaginable. Economics has become a doctrine of ecocide: the systemic killing of ecology itself, the very structure that sustains the Biosphere. We cling to the foolish idea that ecological links can be replaced by mechanized links, that living systems can be “improved” by artificial control. In doing so, we have turned our own minds into enemies. The mind, disconnected from the body and from its vast endocrinology and neurology, spirals into disorder. Our inner hormonal communications collapse, and we swallow pills to silence the resulting anxiety and neurosis. Disease within one organism reflects disease in the larger ecology. There is micro-health and micro-sickness, but there is also macro-health and macro-sickness. And our economic system is generating macro-sickness continuously. In free and healthy nature we naturally feel, sense, and communicate—through silent intuition—with every other organism. But under mechanization, the mind becomes mechanical too: anti-ecological, anti-nature, and inevitably sick. The only cure is freedom—freedom for nature to regenerate. When nature is allowed to heal, symbiosis revives on its own. But how does one fight the enemy that lives inside—the disordered mind? In our alienation, even the inner sacredness seems to have withdrawn. It is as if God has fled from the pineal gland, leaving a mechanized force in charge—something Descartes himself could never have imagined. It is now the responsibility of every university to restore the study of Ecology in its deepest sense and to create spaces where nature can exist without human interference. Only through such sanctuaries of free nature can the mind rediscover its harmony and allow the sacred to return to its rightful place within us. ------------------------------ If you want, I can: - refine the language to be more *academic*, - make it *more poetic*, - turn it into a *speech*, or - simplify it into a *short manifesto*. Just tell me which form you prefer. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCKWpXhMRk23jvOWUyWKcnONJcOYVY1QeMqCCZM_tQN_Cw%40mail.gmail.com.
