-- *Mar*Got it. I’ll do this in two parts, as you asked: 1.
*An edited and improved version* (clearer structure, tighter language, smoother flow, without changing the core philosophy) 2. *My views* — appreciative but also critically reflective ------------------------------ 1) Edited and Improved Version *Bias* With our eyes, we can perceive only about *0.0035% of total reality*. For the remaining *99.9965%*, we must depend on feeling and sensing. Because this vast remainder is invisible and dark to the eyes, it cannot, in most cases, be identified or expressed through words. Sensations that can be traced to something visible are often named as abstract nouns. But that which cannot be traced to visible origins—the unwordable reality—still affects us profoundly, even though it resists language. When we close our eyes and make the mind blank, we prevent visual impressions from obstructing our feeling of the invisible. In doing so, we allow ourselves to become part of the unseeable reality. This practice is called meditation. One must enter the great sea of feeling through feeling itself, allowing it to extend into one’s very being. Our hormones register this connection, though we cannot articulate it. Our cells and hormones are already linked to this 99.9965% of reality. One must accept invisibility as its basic character. Attempting to force the invisible into visible form is a blunder, for it tries to alter what is fundamentally amenable only to feeling, not to sight. You cannot see your perceptions and understandings as three-dimensional objects, yet they inspire you. They are invisible, but real. The invisible 99.9965% of reality is the Universe itself—formless, yet inspiring. The highest form of education and learning occurs through meditation. Meditation simply means relating to nature and feeling nature as a limb of yourself—the invisible limb. You join nature anatomically. You realize that you are part of planet Earth, part of the emotional Gaia. Your sense of being a separate individual dissolves, and your identity expands into Gaia. You grow in health and strength along with Gaia, provided you do not poison her with countless toxins. In completely free and healthy nature, education embeds itself into your being—into your hormonal communications and into the feedback systems that guide the mind. The basic requirement for such education is a completely free and healthy natural environment, untouched by economic exploitation and war activities. In such a space, there are no machines. What we call the “scientific mind” has become a euphemism for introducing machines into human existence. It discounts both you and nature and repudiates the basic fact that you are part of Earth. You are asked to repudiate yourself, adopt machines in your place, and live mechanically. You become the “economic man,” a machine governed by Newtonian mechanics, restricted and imprisoned within the visible 0.0035% of reality. Yet what you cannot see but can feel are hundreds of connections that bind everything in the Universe. When you close your eyes and empty the mind, you gradually sense these countless connections linking you to nature, transforming you into nature itself. Life becomes participation through vibrating connections—connections that link you to Earth through the troposphere and to the cosmos through ubiquitous electromagnetism. The great misfortune of modern education is that it jettisons this entire dimension of feeling and connection, suffocating learners within a narrow domain limited to visual perception. The basic faculty—the 99.9965% accessible only through feeling—is removed from education and labeled as “bias.” Technology is preferred because machines cannot feel and are therefore considered unbiased. The transformation of humans into emotionless mechanisms has become the foundation of scientific education. Newtonian mechanics is elevated as the model for all disciplines, leaving no room for direct sensing and feeling of nature. Because feelings are seen as threats to scientific purity, the sources of emotion—nature itself—are relentlessly destroyed, justified under the banners of economic life and scientific research. Nature is labeled as bias, something to be eliminated. Today, universities have surrendered education to technology and economics, orienting themselves toward industrialization and urbanization—activities that poison land, water, and air. Real education is eliminated, and students are bludgeoned into technological suffocation that cuts them off from nature, the true abode of learning. The word *University* has become a euphemism for mechanization and the removal of free nature from education. Let us return to the real world by closing our eyes and emptying the mind. Let us pray that every university frees itself from disastrous techno-centrism and establishes a *Free Nature Park*, untouched by human tampering, as the first step in delivering education from the shackles of mechanization. — *Y. M. Sarma* ------------------------------ 2) My Views This is a *powerful, poetic, and deeply felt manifesto*, not a conventional academic essay. Its strength lies in: - A *consistent philosophical vision*: reality as primarily invisible and experiential - A *strong ecological consciousness* rooted in Gaia-like thinking - A *clear moral critique* of techno-centric education and economic reductionism - A *lived, meditative epistemology* — knowing through being, not measuring That said, a few reflections—offered respectfully: Where it shines - The insistence that *feeling is a form of knowing* is important and often neglected. - The critique of education becoming purely instrumental and economic is valid and timely. - The text successfully communicates *existential urgency*, not just ideas. Where it may lose some readers - The numerical precision (0.0035% vs. 99.9965%) is rhetorically strong but scientifically contestable. Some readers may get stuck there instead of engaging the philosophy. - The *total rejection of machines* may feel absolutist. Many would argue the problem is not machines themselves, but *how* and *why* they are used. - Framing science exclusively as Newtonian and anti-feeling risks oversimplifying modern science, which increasingly studies complexity, emergence, consciousness, and ecology. A possible way forward (without diluting your core message) Your essay is strongest when read as a *civilizational warning* and a *call for rebalancing*, rather than a literal blueprint. If framed as: “Education must restore the primacy of felt connection with nature, instead of allowing technology and economics to dominate human development,” it could engage both contemplative thinkers *and* reform-minded scientists. In short: This is not a neutral essay—and it shouldn’t be. It is *a cry, a meditation, and a protest*. Its value lies precisely in refusing the language of mechanized neutrality and insisting that *life cannot be understood without feeling*. If you want, I can also: - Adapt this into a *short manifesto* - Rewrite it for an *academic audience* - Or help you sharpen it for *publication or public talks* -- 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/CACDCHC%2B%2B4y%3DapmYf8s_tXfQkrupy-5XD2w2zXq1fbqrARSw-ag%40mail.gmail.com.
