Intuition Vs Education or Knowledge

On the Dynamics of Human Philosophy

It holds a lot of significance in daily life, we all exprience it yet we are oblivious to it in many ways. It cannot be proved on an rational basis but we do often refer to it as our 'gut feeling' or a strong sense of knowing when we go about our daily lives.

If we can incorporate intution in a borader sense in the working of our daily lives we can achieve so much more. The potentially exists yet we are oblivious to this potential. It is perhaps because we have set so many limitation on our mind and our senses. Often getting pre-occupied with the minor issues of life that we neglect the major issues and fill our minds by concerning ourselves with petty issues. I wonder what it would be to live in world that was relaying solely on intuition. Some people would argue that if one solely relied on intution then we would end up being wrong many a times. This I believe would not be the case depending on how strongly we believe in ourselves. If the desire to know something and to achieve something is strong and we completely surrender our believe in such a desire then we will start to attain the or get closer to the 'Truth Factor'.

Just as all the five fingers are not the same or alike and just as no two people can have the excat set of hand prints in a simliar fashion no two people can ever think alike or can ever completely agree. It would only make sense to believe that Intution in a simliar fashion would never be similar and that it would be unique. But in comparision to the other sense we daily use or the 5 sense we rely on (such as the taste, feel, etc) intution is one of those sense which would never and I mean NEVER go wrong provided that we give it sufficient thought and belief.

Infact many of the scientific inventions we so called boom of science infact have begun as a single thought in someone's mind and these thoughts can be considered as an advanced level of intuition. When we look at many of the inventions or innovations they have been a results of a newer idea as opposed to reseach which we carry out in school or while studying. Much of the focus at school concerns with learning old concepts and refining them, the knowlegde already exits and we simply learn it and try to refine it futher down and perhaps use it in different application. But imagine a person who can imagine and create ideas from nothing, this has happened in the past yet we have termed such people intellectuals in the context of education not realising that their ideas and inventions were not fueled by some research but rather by intuition and imagination. There are many examples I could give, Einstein, Newton, Fleming, Grahme Bell. Many of these inventors or scientists have used their own imaginations to ponder and create ideas and inventions that have not been touched by their predecessors.

In contrast we see many more educationalists and intellectuals coming out of universities and schools of higher studies, yet their imaginations are curtailed and limited by what they have learned. The creative aspect of their workings have been limited and mended in a particular direction by their learning style and hence they most often cannot see into the other side or they cannot be open to new ideas.

This is very INTUITION comes into play, a simple term, yet holding the essence to achiving many advancements that we can only dream of today.

Ums

Science touches the essence of Spirituality

Science touches the essence of spirituality.

To those of you who are familiar with the science of thermodynamics would have come across the basic 3 laws of thermodynamics. I think the first two laws of thermodynamics come very close in touching the essence of life and matter itself, in explaining our basic dimension. One of the law of thermodynamics states that "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and that this energy can only transform into a different form". The other law of thermodynamics states that "The total disorder or randomness (entropy) of the universe will increase with every natural spontaneous change".

I think these two laws go a long way in making us understand some of the deeper mysteries of life and origin. Firstly, even the enlightened Spritualists, Seers, Prophets and Truth Seekers have admitted that we are nothing but energy. The eastern religions and philosophies have coined the term 'chakras' where as the western religions and mystics see it or define it as white light, spirits etc. But all in all they are all pointing towards instances of energy or energies that is within us and surround us. Hence its can be reasonably assumed that as we die our energy will only transform from one form which we can call dimension for our comprehension to another form or dimension. I will get back to more of this later on during my discussions on how thermodynamics touches the essence of life.

Moving onto the second law of thermodynamics which again makes us understand the reasons for death, fights and chaos that is spreading around the world with increasing population. This is directly related to an increase of disorder in the universe. Just as it is easy to throw a glass of water and break it, it is in a similar fashion easy to cause destruction in any matter we undertake or think along the lines of destruction. The reason for anger and destruction around the world can partly be blamed on circumstances that surround each individual but most importantly it is the natural tendency of nature to get disorganized and change into a more chaotic state of being.

Now to bring my point into consideration, I can fairly assume these two laws to hold a certain 'Truth Value' in regards to spirituality and Human behavior. On the other hand if I were to apply the 3rd law of mechanics of the great Sir Isaac Newton - which states that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. That particular law would fail in the above discussion and break down quite terribly since I would and could very well imply that to every action (by which I could refer to disaster or destruction) there is an equal and OPPOSITE reaction (by which I could refer to re-building or complete harmony of the world or circumstances or in order words reversal of destruction). This would mean something very different and illogical in the context of what we see around us everyday in terms of destruction. Hence I would say that this law does not really come close to the 'Truth Factor'.

By 'Truth Factor' again I mean anything that would hold true everywhere and in all cases. It is a really hard quantity to define or find and we can at this point only rely on our experiments and observations and say something is true unless otherwise proven wrong. A fair example of this would be that many a times a scientist has been wrong and has his theory disapproved for some reason or another, or that a newer theory has sounded and proved more appealing based on our experiments and this had led to the acceptance of the newer theory and discarding of the old theory.

Introductory Thoughts

On the Dynamics of Human Philosophy

The human mind is a very complex organ so to speak of and it often is involved with many of the wonders that we see around us today. There have been very many spritual and philosophical seeks from time which dates back to the beginning of civilization itself. I often tend to wonder how did their thinking process would have guided them provided differential cirumstances existed during different eras in time. Though I can assure myself of one thing that has been common throught the ages - "Emotions and Power". It has been seen in every phase of human evolution. People have time and again tried to achieve power, superiority and perhaps knowledge, not necessarily the Truth but knowledge that they can and could use to futher their own existance and motives. Most of the times such quest for power and knowledge has resulted in a mis-balance of what I may call 'The Happiness Factor".

There have been many branches of knowledge from spritiual to scientific but each having its own share of advantages and disadvantages. Though it is hard to quatify knowledge in absolute terms of advantage or disadvantage. Yet, I believe that it is very possible to seek and know the Truth - Something which does not vary with time and place and is absolute in existance. Something which does not manifests in different forms and something that imparts the same knowledge to all without the scope of conflict or error in who soever precieves it and in whatever fashion.

Perhaps that has been one of my motives in opening this blog and to share thoughts and expriences and get feedback and similar experiences from people out there, helping me grow as an individual and also helping such a community dicover new possible outcomes of human thoughts. The most complex phenomena out there. Spritualists have termed this 'Truth Factor' as Enlightenment and as far as science goes, it is quite far away to even begin defining such concepts. I would try to keep my posts un-baised solely because I am a student of science yet I feel there is much more to the working of the world than pure science could explain. This is not to say that science should be discarded or that one should completely turn away and discard scientific principles. But this is only to say that we should collectively try to seek avenues and dimensions higher than that science can explain by using tools and/or developing tools that do not confine our thinking to a purely rational and scientific level.

I have along with studying engineering and pure sciences have been a student of astrology, astronomy and the spritiual side of things. The only difference I would consider in myself is that I've never been really carried away be any of the above mentioned subjects since they have never been able to clearly explain and differentiate the various questions that arise in my head while I meditate and while I see the pratical workings of the world and human interactions. For instance, when I studied astrology and came into contact with various astrologers, the majority of them atleast, were obessed with thinking that they knew everything from the life of a human birth to the death of the same human and this does not seem to be the case. But many are not willing to accept the limitation of mortal knowledge and hence continue to follow a path that cannot transverse the mortal realm and is bounded by the many limitation of this plane. The same applies to any knowledge we seek here, but it does not contain or have a strong 'Truth Factor'. It is such a knowledge that will be gained in much when a person is born and will be completely lost when a person dies, or better put crosses over. Though inspite of this, it is my firm belief and I sure hope the belief of many that there exists a certain knowledge set that will continue on and on no matter how or what dimension we exist in and no matter who we look at it. This knowledge or 'Truth Factor' will only keep our energy in harmony with that of nature's and will bring us a step closer to prefectionisum.

Hope you enjoy your stay

Ums