Why Do You Want To Change Me? - Santosh Jha (good non fiction books to read txt) 📗

world, which is fast becoming complex – physically as well as mentally, resulting in far more conflicts and conundrum. This presents the challenge of updating our consciousnesses by upgrading our knowledge. It is the widening gap between collective and individual knowledge spheres, which causes more conflicts and chaos both for individual as well as the society.

The new millennium has heralded a new thinking. It was brewing up for over two decades but now as we moved into 21st century; we have a wisdom to answer many questions of wellness in a completely new light. The answers have come up, as there has been a change in perception about the three core notions, essential for wellness and goodness.

These three core notions are called: 3Cs – Cognition, Consciousness and Causality. The new thinking offers new and scientifically appropriate perceptions about the three notions and helps humanity in understanding them in a new light. This is a huge boost for confidence required for empowerment and wellness. We shall talk about them in the next chapter.

Every new thing is received with skepticism. It is only natural. Most of us have a narcissistic affection towards what we think as right and just. It is our mechanism and also, somehow this aversion to changes, if unexplained, offers egoistic comfort to our general wellness. No wisdom, no science, not even divinity are effective enough to open the closed doors of mind of a person if he or she is egoistically attached to his or her fixated subjective notions for his or her personalized wellness. This wellness is however very restrictive and often short-lived.

Millions of people globally are benefitting by this new thinking and new perceptions about the 3Cs. This new thinking emerges out of the experience and knowledge of humanity for the last millions of years. In the past, usually, all critical issues of life and living were addressed either with extreme ‘scientific positivism’ or with dogmatic ‘religious reductionism’. The right answers for wellness therefore looked elusive for humanity, be it relationships, faith or consciousness.

A ‘new thinking’ believes; answers are in the integrative and assimilative domain as both wisdoms have unbelievable commonality. Moreover, answers cannot be prescriptive but evolve within when one undergoes holistic option building. The new thinking is all about an assimilative and integrative approach and technique, drawing holistic resources from both traditional as well as modern wisdoms.

In complete acceptance of the traditional ancient wisdom, which said, ‘all realisms of this world and the world beyond can be attained only through body. The kaaya (Body), which is deeply entangled with maaya (external world) alone is the madhyam/ dwaar (vehicle and door) of moksha (emancipation from life cycle), the final attainment for humanity, as it is this kaaya, which is the effective karta (subject) of all karmas (actionable duties). But then, both religion and science warns us to understand the subject (karta – the wielder of consciousness) in totality and holism. It is where the trouble starts. The subject and his or her consciousness, which extends him or her the feeling of ‘self’ as separate and unique from others, has been muffled in the mist of mysticism, marvel and virtualism. Be it art and literature, religion-spiritualism or philosophy-psychology, every stream of past wisdoms only accentuated the mysticism and marvel. This mysticism then slipped deep into the popular culture, which in turn worked as a restrictive and dysfunctional milieu for consciousnesses of future generations.

The new thinking based on objective, holistic and singular ideas of consciousness, cognition and causality goes ahead to unravel the objective mechanism of what popular sense of religion or spiritualism enunciates in subjective terms. The new thinking holistically describes the kaaya, maaya, karma, karta and moksha in an objective, singular and systematic perspectives. This is big help in understanding key questions as, ‘who we are’, ‘why we act/behave the way we do’, ‘why this self is usually conflicted’, etc.

Of course, in describing all this, the new thinking attempts to unravel completely new perspectives on the notions of cognition, consciousness and causality, which are the factors essential in the understanding of the ancient concepts of kaaya, maaya, karma, karta and moksha.

The traditional ideas are offered to be understood in different light so that an average person can have different objective ways at understanding them better and use them for its own and societal wellness and goodness. The fact remains and it seems like a very available common sense that even if realism is approached from different perspectives, the realism does not change, the way different people look at it may change from person to person. The intelligence is in accepting all perspectives towards singular realism and investigate it with a compassionate mind. This is one common prescription, which all wisdoms of humanity offers. That is why; it is a ‘common sense’ for all of us.

Of the three Cs, understanding and accepting the ‘Consciousness’ in the light of this new wisdom is crucial for all of us as this itself shall present a case for change in all of us. There are certain aspects of this subjective consciousness, which we all know from our own experiences and self-observation. However, so far we have used the old wisdom of ‘reverse intelligence’ by ascertaining a cause of ‘why we are what we are’ and other key questions from the effects, we observe empirically. We need to change this and see ourselves and our consciousnesses in a new light.

An average person is often floating in a ‘soup’ of sensation, emotion, impulse/desire, imagination, thought and intuition. There is a reason to it. There are seven conscious and unconscious elements of personality: The lower unconscious, the middle unconscious, the higher unconscious or super-conscious, the field of consciousness, the conscious self or "I", the higher self and the collective unconscious. All seven elements are within an individual and operate simultaneously. The life journey is shifting gears from these consciousnesses. Most of us therefore are in a state of ‘flux’ – conflicted and confused. This is our mechanism.

Then, there are eight intangible affecters: Sensation, emotion, impulse/desire, imagination, thought, intuition, will and the central point ‘I’ or personal self. An individual is often split and conflicted between these. Often, we put in ‘more’ or ‘undue’ weight and importance to one aspect; often justifying it, which is psychosis. The requirement however is synthesis of all these psychological functions by the ‘Self’. The higher consciousness needs to strike harmony and balance. This poise is the destination.

Few people recognize that their own personhood is a mystery. Fewer still care enough about the mystery to understand it. The ‘Pop-Belief’ is – Life is more about living it than it is about understanding it. However, shouldn’t we ask ourselves, ‘who are we?’ The answer needs knowing and it needs allowance to some knowledge, other than what we hold dear to our heart. That is why change is optionless.

The trouble is; the process of understanding one’s ‘self’ is pitted against one’s own beliefs about one’s ‘self’. It is not an easy task to determine which of these beliefs are true and which are mere ideas. We are in the error of believing that our ‘Body’ and ‘We’ are the same things. We are not aware that each of us is a virtual agent, a ‘self’, that speaks for his or her organism.

There are two subjects within ‘you’. One is the GENERIC SUBJECT, which is your innate body mechanism. It accepts only tangible things and is mostly reactive and self-initiated. The other subject is SPECIFIC SUBJECT, which leads a thoughtful action. The self, the ‘you’ is a functional relationship between the two subjects and is a ‘virtual agent’. You are a bridge between the two ends of the two subjects.

The ‘I’, which exists and performs in each layer of consciousness is not ‘singular’, rather it is the summation of different ‘MEs’ of different layers of consciousnesses. So, there are different ‘Is’ when you are rising in the morning, playing with your kids, praying in the church, dealing finance with your colleagues, watching an opera in the evening, dizzy after boozing and finally in bed with your spouse.

Different life situations, requiring diverse sets of ‘action-thought-behavior’ patterns, as commensurate with ambient milieus, engender different ‘layers of consciousnesses’. In all these layers, the ‘I’ may be different but there is one ‘I’ in ‘higher consciousness’, which is always sort of commanding all the former ‘I’.

This ‘Master I’ is not singular and independent, rather a summation of the all other ‘Is’. The ‘I’ in the higher consciousness is not something aloof from an individual. The higher self is not a rejection of individual’s baser selves or instincts. This ‘Master I’ is a mind positioning within, which accepts conflicts of the different personality aspects and functions – the different ‘I’.

It is a super state of mind awareness, which recognizes all aspects; be it in any state of unconscious or subconscious. It attempts to bring them to the layer of higher consciousness for harmonizing them into a fruitful whole. This higher consciousness must be in harmonious relationship with all aspects and functions of an individual personality, like a true master and always be in control.

Spiritualism gives us a metaphor of ‘Master I’ being the driver of a chariot with six horses, reigning in all of them to a singular path of ‘appropriate’. The core issue is to understand the higher consciousness in detail, as, it is this ‘I’, which has the definitive role of being the master of an individual.

This ‘Master I’ is the media for exploration of an expanded experience of human identity, capacity and potential. This ‘I’ leads ‘self’ to a journey into transpersonal dimensions. These dimensions encompass the higher levels of the energy spectrum: realms of higher consciousness that transcend the everyday awareness of the personality.

Many psychic phenomena are strictly emotional or delusional, tinged with fears, personal prejudices and wishful thinking. These are moments when one of your ‘I’ may take off on obsessive flights. This is the test of your ‘Master I’ navigation controls. The ‘Master I’ must always be evolving and as it evolves, the dimensions of consciousnesses get enlarged and the ‘Master I’ is empowered more.

The above descriptions about consciousness are aimed at bringing about the importance of understanding consciousness and its mechanism in details. Once we understand and accept the intricate mechanism of consciousness and how it is primarily instrumental in our wellness and excellence, we shall happily accept all questions of change and all new answers.

The mechanism of our own mind consciousness is designed in such a way that it excels in reacting to things in its ambient milieus. We are essentially a reactive genius. However, we are no more purely instinctive beings. We live in societies with cultures, which define our choices. The consciousness is bound to be wavering between what is our ‘nature’ and what comes to us as ‘nurture’, in the form of milieus. In the milieu we live, we are always faced with newer questions as well as answers. Our wellness and excellence depends on how well we manage the incessant process of learning and unlearning. The unlearning is far more important than learning in the process of our evolution to wellness and excellence. That is why we have to be consciously opened up to evolution and changes. We need to accept unlearning as something good for us, even when our instincts and cultures keep persuading us to hold up our egoistic self-resisting new learnings. We shall talk about the issue in detail later.

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Understanding The Rainbow Of Consciousness

Seeing consciousness from the perspective of brain mechanism and then relating our own subjective feelings with these objective facts can best present a matrix for understanding the agency called consciousness. This is our primary step to arrive at the question – Why Do You Want To Change Me?

Consciousness is termed as “an intangible emergent property of information processing.” Consciousness is intricately a two-way processing agency. First, it works as a storehouse of information, which are gathered from sensory organs. These info it matches with