Mind matters....

We students of science and our educational system has led us to reason that, if B causes A, (the so called normal which we have decided as the “acceptable normal”) to be “damaged” or “affected”, and if C is the antidote for B all you need is to deploy C,  and the system will fall back to a normal A.

We also tend to believe, the A we see as normal is the normal – anything different is “Abnormal”…and is to be facilitated back to “normal” or to be “tolerated”, if we cannot facilitate back the same…

We also tend to work with the notion that, the change should be within “x” number of time span and that if that does not happen, something has failed and has gone wrong…and we re-start the process of identifying D, which could be better than C…

Recently I was sitting through a “Public health discussion” – that so much of resources and interventions have been put into this group and has led to excellent results in some parts of the country but other parts have not done well, and so we need to double our efforts in those pockets, so that we can see the results “we want to see” soon! What was that they wanted to see – a % of a health index which they defined as “Acceptable” and “Normal”….

It is this reasoning that has led to the “discovery” of many “innovative” answers to life’s problems…But the challenge is that these reasoning’s and thinking permeates every aspect of our thinking and affects the way we see life and we start seeing all what happens through these perceptions and spectacles..

Look around and reflect – the universe as we know it – the milky way cannot exist without the rest of the galaxies...(at least as far we know it), the solar system cannot exist without rest of its family in the milky way, the earth  as we know it cannot exist without the Sun, the Nations on the earth cannot exist without the interdependence we have with other nations, the ethnic communities though want to have their own segregated lives cannot exist without others around them, none of us can exist without our families or extended families or the “new families” we are part of….

Or look at the body systems and reflect - the cardio-vascular system cannot exist without the Nervous systems, and vice-versa, similarly the Endocrine without the NS, the Skeletal without muscular, the GI without the Vascular, the GU without the vascular and the NS and it goes own….and even individual cells – they have no existence without the dependence on each other…even the loose cannons like WBCs!

Systems are dependent on each other all around us…whether it is body, family, community, nation, earth, solar system or universe…God set these patters for us to see and learn that life is a dependant and interdependent one and we cannot reason out everything by 1+1=2….!

And we do not recognize that in the creation, in our body and systems  and in the universe there is so much of variety and diversity that, if one starts looking carefully, the whole definition of what is “normal” itself would need to be re-defined…

Is aging “Normal” or “Abnormal”….if it is normal..why fight it….is a genetic mutation – a normal variation – if so why not celebrate it…Who decides who is normal, intelligent and smart  – today IQ, tomorrow EQ and future SQ….? (Social/Spiritual/other…)

And we lose the sight of an “eternal” plan of an “eternal; God”….that Nations, families, communities, even our individual lives are expected to be part of an eternal plan of God…the mountains which we face each day….might look like a small dent or hump…at the end of our life… and if we see this from eternity…we may not even notice the same….

People, institutions, organizations, nations, Kingdoms will come and go..but the eternal plans of God and his kingdom will go on….

So – How shall then we live – Scientific “reductional” thinking Vs System and comprehensive thinking, celebrating variety and redefining “normal” and an eternal perspective to a temporal life….