Posted by sushil yadav I am sending you an article to read. This is about the link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues. This is also directly related to Spirituality. The article explains why it is so difficult to control the Mind and make it peaceful in today’s fast society. We cannot be spiritual or peaceful if we destroy Nature. Thank you, MAIN ARTICLE & EXPERIMENT Please note : The article has been written in short sentences rather than paragraph-form because it is about subjective experience / emotion/ reduction of thought. Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment. Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct. If there are no gaps there is no emotion. Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion. There comes a time when there are almost no gaps. People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps. Emotion ends. Man becomes machine. A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety. A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety. A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety. FAST VISUALS /WORDS MAKE SLOW EMOTIONS EXTINCT. SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS. A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ I am trying to get the following experiment conducted in a psychophysiology/ bio-chemistry laboratory. Emotion can intensify / sustain only when visual and verbal processing The degree of difficulty of an emotion depends upon the degree of Subjects (preferably actors specialising in tragedy / tragic roles ) (1) Human suffering. Subjects will be asked to intensify and sustain the subjective feeling of pain/ grief for the sufferer. The chemical changes associated with the emotion in the body(blood) would be measured by appropriate methods. The silent video film will be shown at different speeds : (1) Intensity of emotion increases with the decrease in visual speed. (3) The amount of chemical change associated with the emotion in the (4) The chemical change is maximum when visual speed is minimum. The above co-relations will be valid for all subjects -even for those who cannot feel pain/ grief. Such subjects will experience emotion associated with boredom/ discomfort/ restlessness/ irritability/ uneasiness. The chemicals released will be different but the co-relation between visual speed and amount of chemical will be same( the breathing rates will be different/ fast). [If scientists can discover 4000 different chemicals in cigarette-smoke then they can certainly detect the few chemicals released in blood when we experience higher-level emotions like pain, empathy, compassion, remorse etc… ] Please note: (2) In a society in which visual ( verbal ) speed and breathing- rates PROOF. In the last century man has made thousands of movies / films on various Tragedy-films provide direct proof / evidence of the link between pain Pain can intensify / sustain only when visual ( and verbal ) speed slows Today man sits in front of TV / Computer and watches the rapidly He sits in a vehicle ( car / train / bus ) and as it moves he watches He turns the pages of a book / newspaper / magazine and sees many In ancient times verbal processing was “live” in nature—ie it happened when people actually spoke. If we cannot focus on slow visuals / words we cannot experience emotions Before the advent of Industrial Revolution Man's thinking was primarily (a) visual processing ( slow visuals ) Today there are many kinds of fast thinking : (1) visual processing ( fast visuals ) (3), (4) & (5) ARE ASSOCIATED WITH NUMBERS / SYMBOLS / EQUATIONS / As long as the mind is doing this kind of thinking it cannot feel any In a fast society slow emotions become extinct. EMOTION IS WHAT REMAINS IN THE MIND WHEN VISUAL /VERBAL PROCESSING SLOWS DOWN (STOPS/ FREEZES )
Link: http://www.netshooter.com/emotion
on 9/4/2005, 9:53 pm
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Dear Group Members,
Sushil Yadav
[ My background is given in the first letter ( letter No. 1 ) under the
topic " Correspondence with neuroscientists " on the website :
www.netshooter.com/emotion ]
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / EMPATHY.
WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF.
There is a link between visual / verbal speed ( in perception, memory,
imagery ) and the bio-chemical state of the brain and the body.
associated with the emotion slows down ( stops / freezes ).
freezing (of visuals and words ) required to intensify and sustain that
particular emotion.
Experiment:
will be asked to watch a silent video film showing any of the
following:-
(2) Animal suffering.
(3) Suffering ( Destruction ) of Air / Water / Land / Trees.
(1) 125% of actual speed.
(2) Actual/real speed.
(3) 75% of actual speed.
(4) 50% of actual speed.
(5) 25% of actual speed.
Results :
(2) Intensity of emotion is maximum when visual speed is minimum (25%
of actual speed)
body(blood) will be found to increase with the decrease in visual speed.
(5) The amount of chemical change will increase with the decrease in
breathing rate. Breathing becomes so slow and non-rhythmic that it stops
for some time at the inhalation/ exhalation stages.
All subjects will experience some kind of emotion.
In the 2nd stage of experiment we shall replace the silent video film with a Narrator ( Audio only ) and repeat the procedure thereby establishing the link between intensity of emotion and verbal speed. The narrator will slow down verbal speed by-- speaking slowly, stretching words, repetition of words/ sentences & making use of
pause/ silence between words.
(1) A THINKING MIND CANNOT INTENSIFY / SUSTAIN ANY EMOTION.
While this statement is generally true for all emotions, it is
particularly true for all painful emotions.
are fast , pain / remorse / empathy cannot be experienced. It is
impossible.
Proof of the link between pain and slow visuals / words :-
themes / subjects. Whenever pain / tragedy is shown in any film the
visuals ( scenes ) and words ( dialogues ) are always slowed down. In
many films tragedy is shown in slow motion. At the most intense moment
of pain the films almost become static / stationary.
and slowness.
down( stops/ freezes).
CHANGE IN VISUAL SPEED OVER THE YEARS
One thousand years ago visuals would change only when man physically
moved himself to a new place or when other people ( animals / birds )
and objects ( clouds / water ) physically moved themselves before him.
changing visuals / audio.
the rapidly changing visuals.
visuals / text in a short span.
CHANGE IN VERBAL SPEED OVER THE YEARS
Today there is non-stop verbal processing inside the mind through print and electronic media ( newspapers, books, magazines, radio, television, computer etc…) as a result of which the verbal content & speed has increased thousands of times.
The speed of visuals ( and words ) has increased so much during the last
one hundred years that today the human brain has become incapable of
focussing on slow visuals /words through perception, memory, imagery.
associated with slow visuals /words.
limited to :
(b) verbal / language processing ( slow words )
(2) verbal / language processing ( fast words )
(3) Scientific / Technical thinking ( fast )
(4) Industrial thinking ( fast )
(5) Business thinking ( fast )
GRAPHS /CIRCUITS / DIAGRAMS / MONEY / ACCOUNTING etc…
emotion - not an iota of emotion.
In a thinking ( scientific / industrial ) society emotion itself becomes extinct.
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