The metaphysical relevance of the 'notion' of the world for man, and his individual and social life?
(This portion is a part of the main post on WORLD', at the link: http://selfandworldblogs.blogspot.com/2015/03/is-world-absolute-object-or-relative.html)
The mere physical entity of man would be a piece of dead-wood if the mind mechanism is not within. To understand mind ( or consciousness) as a mere manifestation of the body ( the physical) would be equal to belittling the equally complex, but real, parallel system of the conceptual. It makes much greater sense to understand the physical system as mere 'means' and structural system to carry the former, the more real end theme of existence.
An excessively projected 'conceptual world', at the cost of ignoring man's yet the un-revealed and un-solved metaphysical root of existence, would be similar to uprooting all vegetation from the soil and planting them at artificial platforms above earth surface, for better productivity or whatsoever. The more the 'world' concept move-away from the root reality of the integrated relation between man and nature, and man and existence, it becomes more and more difficult for the individual man to cope-up with such life. He will always have to nurture a sense of uprooted-ness or spiritual emptiness. This is what causes an increasing tendency of suicides, depressions, and strained human-relations. Any institution, value, myth, conventions, and traditions unrelated to the root reality of human-emotions, universal aspirations, and similar mind-needs would end-up in synthetic models of life. ( Those interested can share a blog on what 'integrity with existence' means, at the link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/spiritual-integrity-man-possible-existence-abraham-j-palakudy?trk=mp-author-card)
Our all defining institution of present-day- POLITICS-ridden State-, a means that evolved to achieve certain collective objectives of human-communities, has, unfortunately, reigned the world as an end in itself. Human life has become a means for modern politics-ridden democracies to enact their ends. Emotional and metaphysical relevance of human-life has almost got extinct from human-societies. Man has turned a domesticated political animal reared by States for their own sake. That burdensome and heavy world-image is something that an individual will find it extremely difficult to get rid-off and save himself from.
The conceptual world has turned a tool, or a commercial commodity that could be used by those who has selfish interests, like say the reigning political players, the Media, and the industry. Their thoughtless and unprincipled moves, acts and strategies have transformed the modern world into a wild-jungle, where plain reason and even common-sense has lost centrality. Its empty corpulence is increasingly making individuals tiny and irrelevant; reason being, where the canvas gets bigger, the object in the canvas looks smaller. Canvas gains more relevance than the object in it.
The peril of simple reason is the most unfortunate result of the above. There is no rational direction to guide human-thought and behavior. What indirectly and silently rule the modern world is the dangerous values depicted at the blog:http://leadingdogmasthatruletheworld.blogspot.in/
There exists no central agency to mind for the overall moral, or rational direction of the world, leaving it an orphaned place. No doubt, the conceptual world has become a specific product, a tool in the hands of any well-organized groups, class, or ideology merchants to exploit it for selfish ends.
For the ordinary folk, the world-image thus imposed becomes a great conceptual burden that is most difficult to off-load his shoulders and brain.
h) The science of Hypnotism is based predominantly on the power of 'suggestions'. Is the category of the world a collective illusion formed by the power of suggestion of contemporary norms and values of society?
This writer was into practice of Hypnotism as a hobby during his college days. Whatever is suggested to the experimental 'subject'/patient when he/she is under hypnotic trance, he/she experience it as real. Effects of powerful suggestions of health and well-being given under trance sustain even weeks and months after the experiment. Therefore, it could be reliably assumed that the category of 'world' is the direct result of the powerful suggestions naturally internalized by human-beings from their social, economic, political and cultural surrounding. After all, what is man's reality other than what he collectively believes, and following the values that naturally derive out of such beliefs?
Hence, social change could be definitely brought-forth by altering our collective values, myths, and norms of society, the job of every responsible establishment.
Meaning and 'sense' about life and existence could definitely be altered if mankind recognizes the centrality of keeping and propagating more sensible concepts about our collective realities, concepts, and notions. Our agencies who are even minutely responsible for pumping collective notions, ideas and concepts about the world must take utmost care in what they create and pump into the world. Exactly like the violation and abuse of physical nature would certainly result in serious atmospheric and environmental pollution and disasters, un-thoughtful and careless production of collective ideas, notions and concepts also would seriously damage man's collective 'space' of the spirit, ( or the 'environment' of the mind) and affect lives of human beings and their emotional habitats.
Authored by; Abraham J. Palakudy
He is an independent researcher/seeker in fields like Philosophy, metaphysics, mind, Reason, polity, human society, etc.
His Twitter account: Voice of philosophy@jopan1
His other blogs and brief biography: https://www.blogger.com/profile/14249415589712707293
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