I Am God by Santosh Jha (bill gates books to read .txt) 📕

dogma, ideology, fantasy and fiction having no measurable and proven basis. That is why; different tribal societies and regions of human population had different and even conflicting ‘world views’ which finally were embedded in the soil of their respective cultures, as civilizations grew in size. Cultural differences do have some geographical basis but most differences came from this plurality of ‘cause-effect’ interpretations. Geographical differences also created shades of a single effect.

The larger chunk of this ‘reverse intelligence’ continued till very recently, may be till some 200-300 years ago when pure science started to come with proven, measurable and singular answers. Modern science has largely answered all major questions of humanity but it still has a lot more to explain. This gives leeway to believers and faith followers who use this as a convenient excuse to dump all that science has to offer in terms of objective and singular answers. Within the scientific community also, there are major differences of opinions on almost all major answers of science. This only adds to the confusion at mass-level and that’s why, majority of people on this planet are happy following the age-old and obsolete wisdom of imagining pluraly and subjectively the ‘causes’ of the ‘effects’ they observe around them. The archaic and outdated wisdoms of religion and philosophy still exist to guide them to perpetuity of chaos and confusion of pluralism. Plurality of science adds to this chaos.

It has to be accepted without doubts that this ‘reverse intelligence’ actually also helped ancient humans in a big way. Lot many learning and discoveries were made possible by this mechanism and humanity benefitted a lot. Farming, animal husbandry and mining are such boons. Humans observed plants growing from seeds and this effect they replicated with success. There were numerous observations of ‘effects’ and their replication, without knowing their actual causes, that helped humanity evolve. So, it was only natural that early humans accepted this ‘reverse intelligence’ as larger wisdom and ensured that it had the sanction of religion so that these practices could be inseparable part of culture.

The only trouble is, there were some effects, which they could not imagine, right and still included them as part of their religiously sanctioned cultures. Evolution of humanity growingly provided right answers about this objective cause-effect mechanism. However, as culture and traditions are so deeply ingrained in human mind mechanism, it is still very hard for most people to accept anything that is new to this contemporary culture and ancient wisdom of religion, which is the largest chunk of a culture.

What we need to do is put aside this popular concept of ‘conflict’ between science and faith and understand what is the actual functional mechanism of we and things around us. The universe, the planet earth and all lives on it have already been created. How it all happened in the past may never be conclusively arrived at but what we may have is the answer in largely proven way as how things happened after all this happened. Past cannot change for better or worse but the present and future surely can. If we accept the massive works done by science in answering our major questions, we surely shall be hugely advantaged in understanding well – who we are, why we are, why we do what we do, why we do what we should never do, how we behave and act and why, where is the conflict and why, what is good and what is bad and why, etc.

Even if we do not completely accept what science answers as true, at least it helps by adding an interesting perspective. Understanding all these surely shall make us find ourselves in enhanced joy and satisfaction. Our better and empowered present is in our hands now and this should write the golden chapters of future. The best way to it is using the energy of ‘skepticism’ and know and understand both science and religion in their pure and objective forms. Know both science and religion and question their objectivity till you are sure what you accept conforms to the above-mentioned criteria of singularity of truth; largely, if not completely. There is however a need to guard against ‘smart-extrapolations’ and ‘scientific-ingenuity’ of some ‘cunning-imaginators’ in science too. The same guard has to be against religion.

It has to be accepted with humility that however objective we say the truth must be, it can never be; as it is ultimately ‘by-for-from’ humans who have a cultural mindset for subjectivity. Even a machine cannot be 100% objective as no machine works at maximum but optimum. Even science is a human enterprise and is duly affected. For example, within science, three wings – biology, chemistry and physics enjoy a great but healthy rivalry for supremacy. Every wing says, ultimate and conclusive wisdom shall be delivered only by them! So does religion! One religion says, his God is the original, primeval and ultimate; rest of the Gods of other religions are only ‘generic gods’… etc..! We all must come out of this subjective competitiveness and assimilate all wisdoms to evolve a ‘singularity’. There is actually no harm in accepting the utility of different streams of wisdom, in understanding of one idea of life and living. We shall finally see that all wisdoms have common things to say.

As already said, both science and art has common basis of primary functioning in terms of neural mechanism. Both start with human’s instinctive capacity to observe and imagine. Science then proceeds on to test every possibility of imagination with provable, objective and measurable terms, whereas art and culture moves to personalized and subjective expressions. Both science and art created master works owing to their common initial techniques. The commonality is also from the fact that man and its environment were common for both science and art and the observable variables too were common for imaginative expressions. Naturally, this commonality could find grounds in other areas of expressions of both separate fields.

Most of the current works on religion, philosophy and culture were created around 1500 BC to 1500 AD. This was the period when humanity had the abundance and resultant leisure to put in all major wisdom traditions. However, this is also the time when degeneration of genetic matters had also concretized, as it had started around 10,000 years back. Now, the original wisdom may not be present as human instincts are designed such a way that in long use, any wisdom is degenerated. But, if we read the ancient wisdoms with a scientifically objective mind, compassionately making allowances to subjectivity of artistic expressions and time-tampering, we can easily see that core ideas of all wisdom, subjective or objective has a common ground.

The huge benefit now humanity has that all wisdom, value-systems, cultural-requirements and collective-mechanisms can be tested on the singular basis of the proven, measurable and objective facts of science, which are also what core religion and philosophy say. We now know our body and brain well. We now have the technology and wherewithal to alter the genetic troubles of human bodies and minds through eugenics techniques. We are now empowered to create not only sure survival of humanity but also its excellence to spread to the universe.

We just need to have the courage, determination and resilience to accept this new mindset to accommodate more and more science in our thinking and value summation. It is not necessary that one should accept these facts and make drastic changes in all aspects of one’s life. It shall be very tough. One can simply do one thing. Accept this new paradigm to define, “who I am”. This shall greatly enhance one’s satisfaction and joys as he or she shall find himself in singularity of body and mind mechanism. That is good to start with.

It would be even better if one uses the energy of skepticism and doubts all that has been presented by new wisdom. One should use his or her own resources to re-check their authenticity. But, one must not ‘reject’ them out rightly or show them a close door. Doubt them, re-check them, correct them if you find them wrong… but not ‘reject’ them. It is just a humble suggestion that mind’s value-summation shall definitely be more inclined towards this desirable ‘singularity’ if science is also accepted as a supportive approach, in cooperation with religion and philosophy.

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Why Religion Is Misrepresented

The dominant theme of our universe is accord, not discord. At the core of every ‘idea’ of discord is the ‘matter’ of accord. Conflict is just a ‘peripheral’ notion. The centripetal force of self-analysis always takes you to the ‘core’ of cooperation and coexistence.

Humanity always had some evolved minds, who rose above the conflicts of life and to whom ‘the singular answers’ of critical questions of humanity as well as the cosmos were revealed. Important it is that the revelations to a handful get eventually transformed into a logical and patterned knowledge for all of humanity. This has always been missing till now, presenting the real challenge for humanity. The new holistic-assimilative-integrative wisdom enlists this as ‘doable’.

It is like; in an exam, you know the answer of a mathematical question and you write that in the answer sheet but the examiner would not give you any marks for that. You need to write down the entire process of how you arrived at the right answers. Just knowing the right answers fetches no marks. Even in life, we think we have the answers but as we miss the right process, results are disappointing.

This has always happened to a few great minds in human civilization. They knew the right ‘answers’ but not the right ‘process’; none of their fault! The mechanism could not possibly be known to them. That is why; there came the trilogy of ‘known-unknown-unknowable’ premise. Those who truly arrived at the right answers could not detail the right process and that is why they said, ‘real wisdom is only revealed to individuals and cannot be converted into a collective knowledge for all’. It is unknowable but can only be ‘revealed’. This proposition still holds good for larger humanity. However, we are now starting to have the knowledge of mechanism, to lay down the right processes for the right answers.

The larger humanity accepts this ‘known-unknown-unknowable’ premise as truth – be it religion, spiritualism, philosophy or psychology. It resulted into a very beautiful but also very dangerous proposition for humanity. Those who arrived at the wisdom and when right answers were revealed to them, it was only very natural and instinctive that their minds were filled with compassion as they could see the larger humanity suffering partly from lack of resource but largely because of widespread and deep ignorance.

They felt so full of compassion to see that ignorance is making the very potent and positive ‘energy’ of conflict into a potent weapon of mass destruction and resultant pain and misery. They chose a way out. However, like conflict, this new way created more chaos and confusion than order and peace, which was intended.

Many of those, who arrived at right answers but did not know the process, chose not to speak. They were never sure, what was revealed to them were actually right or not as, they could not establish its procedural veracity. As they say, ‘the wise is never sure and a stupid is always’. The wise is always responsible.

Many of them were also fearful of the social backlash, as even now, larger humanity is full of vengeance and violence for non-conformists. Still, a few chose to speak, mostly out of compassion for the larger ignorance of wider humanity. However, it was impossible even for them to put the wisdom into words that larger humanity could understand and accept. Therefore, what they said was mostly in a language of ‘metaphors and symbols’. Why they chose to say it all in metaphors and symbol? It has a reason.

Very early in human evolution, when humans had not even developed language, some of the more evolved brains could detect and establish that there was