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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.







Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.







This week I bring to your attention once again another excerpt which we have titled – The Road Ahead from the book titled ‘The Axemaker’s Gift’ – Technology’s capture and control of our minds and Culture by James Burke and Robert Ornstein.







This book is about the people who gave us the world in exchange for our minds. The gifts we accepted from them gave us the power to change the way we lived, but doing so also changed the way we thought. It is a stunning account of how scientific thinking and technology have gained control over the way we perceive and value the world. 







The Road Ahead







In the beginning, the marks that our axes made were hardly noticeable amongst the immeasurable riches of the planet. So we gave little thought to the destruction, only looking ahead to a horizon we never seemed to reach. However, some measure of what we were doing tens of thousands of years ago can be understood from an event that left the last and best-preserved record of the effect the axe may have had in Eden. The event took place only a thousand years ago, when the Maoris arrived in New Zealand.







At the time, the dominant animal there was the moa, a large, flightless bird. It weighed anywhere between 10 and 200 kilos, and as there were no threatening mammals it had taken over the role normal to browsers and fruit eaters. Moas were so numerous that later European settlers often found ploughing difficult because of the sheer number of their bones. But within five hundred years of the Maori arrival, every moa in New Zealand had vanished. Archeological evidence shows that moa meat had been so plentiful it supported the first Maoris in groups as large as fifty without the need for agriculture. The Maoris took the moa to be a free lunch and only later learned there was no such thing.







The Maoris also burned large tracts of vegetation that had very few fire-resistant plants, so within a few hundred years there were parts of the country that the settlers had transformed from a rich, diverse ecology into a virtual desert. Only bracken flourished, because it was resistant to fire and did not need the moa to spread its seeds. Having originally enjoyed a rich and varied diet, the Maori settlers were eventually reduced to surviving off bracken roots.







Excerpt from ‘The Axemaker’s Gift’ by James Burke and Robert Ornstein







I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:







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Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.







Namaste!

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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.







Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.







This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – Good Feelings – Good Vibes & Spiritual Pursuit from the book titled ‘The Mind Field’ by Robert Ornstein.







In this book the late Robert Ornstein extends his argument to the sacrosanct psychiatric profession, as well as to meditation, parapsychologies, shamanism, and the numerous trademarked “awareness systems.”







And the author in the books preface highlights a very thought provoking aspect, he points out that  – We are now on the threshold of a new understanding of man and of consciousness, one which might unite the scientific, objective, external approach of Western civilization and the personal, inward disciplines of the East.







Good Feelings – Good Vibes & Spiritual Pursuit







The current cultural difficulty is that many people who are trained to believe that they need help in their personal lives mistakenly assume that “higher studies” will give them what they seek.







Yet,  probably worse than the confusion in the public is that of the practitioners of therapy themselves, who often offer a warmed-over mash of misinterpreted religion, reduced or inflated, and an attempt at “good feeling” or good vibes” to their often unwary clients.







One should, of course, not hold that personal problems never do exist. These difficulties, whether in the realm of interpersonal relations, illiteracy, poor nutrition, or social and cultural difficulties, must be met and tolerably answered before one’s involvement in esoteric studies begins. Otherwise, this study can become reduced to an appendage to, and magnifier of, a person’s difficulty. Once personal problems are met, the irrational desire for visible “progress” and for the comfort of a secure system of mysticism may be lessened.







Excerpt from ‘The Mind Field’ by Robert Ornstein







I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:









The Mind Field









Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.







Namaste!

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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.







Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.







This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – Known World from the book titled ‘The Mind Field’ by Robert Ornstein.







In this book the late Robert Ornstein extends his argument to the sacrosanct psychiatric profession, as well as to meditation, parapsychologies, shamanism, and the numerous trademarked “awareness systems.”







And the author in the books preface highlights a very thought provoking aspect, he points out that  – We are now on the threshold of a new understanding of man and of consciousness, one which might unite the scientific, objective, external approach of Western civilization and the personal, inward disciplines of the East.







Known World







We normally consider that which we see with our eyes, hear with our ears, smell with our nose, feel with our hands, and that impressions thus derived exhaust the nature of reality. Although this is partly true, the main biological function of our sensory systems is to discard information which is irrelevant to biological survival. Our senses are as selective as cats’ whiskers; our eyes focus on a small spot within the radiant electromagnetic band, our ears respond to a narrow bandwidth of mechanical waves. Very little of the available information passes the barrier into our “known” world.







Excerpt from ‘The Mind Field’ by Robert Ornstein







I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:









The Mind Field









Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.







Namaste!





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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.







Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.







This week I bring to your attention an excerpt which we have titled – Evolution & Dissonance from the book titled ‘The Mind Field’ by Robert Ornstein.







In this book the late Robert Ornstein extends his argument to the sacrosanct psychiatric profession, as well as to meditation, parapsychologies, shamanism, and the numerous trademarked “awareness systems.”







And the author in the books preface highlights a very thought provoking aspect, he points out that  – We are now on the threshold of a new understanding of man and of consciousness, one which might unite the scientific, objective, external approach of Western civilization and the personal, inward disciplines of the East.







Evolution & Dissonance







Cultural evolution is much more rapid than biological evolution. An alteration in learning or the acquisition of a skill can be transmitted quickly between individuals, or with modern means of communication transmitted to an entire culture, yet our genetic structure remains unchanged.







Thus the biology of living systems always lags behind alterations in the environment or the social situation.







The human remains basically unchanged genetically since the Stone Age. The primary aim of physical evolution is biological survival, both of the individual and of the race. At points in the history of a large population system, individual survival may proceed along the same parameters as the survival of the population, though at later points on the curve of increasing population and social complexity there is often a dissonance between them. It is in large part a human’s increasing mastery over his environment that cleaves the individual and collective prerequisites of survival and occasions the need for new choices, and new development.







Excerpt from ‘The Mind Field’ by Robert Ornstein







I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:









The Mind Field









Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.







Namaste!

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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.







Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.







This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – Reductionism from the book titled ‘The Axemaker’s Gift’ – Technology’s capture and control of our minds and Culture by James Burke and Robert Ornstein.







This book is about the people who gave us the world in exchange for our minds. The gifts we accepted from them gave us the power to change the way we lived, but doing so also changed the way we thought. It is a stunning account of how scientific thinking and technology have gained control over the way we perceive and value the world. 







Reductionism







Even as Bacon was formulating his new system, in a small town in Bavaria a snowstorm kept a French military engineer in his lodgings for a whole day and night during which, he said, he had formulated the concept that was to solve the problem of evaluation. His method for doing so would also give specialists a powerful new gift to help them in manufacturing knowledge. In 1637, after much rethinking, the engineer, René Descartes, published his new concept in a book called Discourse on Method, in which he set out the rules for seeking certainty in an uncertain world.







The secret lay in what he called “methodical doubt,” by which everything except self-evident truths were to be questioned until they had proved themselves to be true (and for Descartes, every-thing, especially the evidence of the senses, was to be doubted in the absence of any “evident truth”). Descartes’ method provided the supreme cut-and-control approach to the world in the form of a technique known as “reductionism.” In an echo of the medieval resolution-and-composition technique, the method called for a problem to be divided up into its smallest parts so that it could more easily be understood and then solved. All reductionist thinking should proceed from the simple to the complex and all statements about the world should be expressed only in non-metaphysical terms: size, shape, and movement.







Excerpt from ‘The Axemaker’s Gift’ by James Burke and Robert Ornstein







I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:









The Axemakers Gift: Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture









Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.







Namaste!

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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Because ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.







Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.







This week I bring to your attention another excerpt which we have titled – The Town Clock from the book titled ‘The Axemaker’s Gift’ – Technology’s capture and control of our minds and Culture by James Burke and Robert Ornstein.







This book is about the people who gave us the world in exchange for our minds. The gifts we accepted from them gave us the power to change the way we lived, but doing so also changed the way we thought. It is a stunning account of how scientific thinking and technology have gained control over the way we perceive and value the world. 







The Town Clock







The gift of the clock immediately made possible new forms of wider, more effective marshaling of social forces. Demand for clocks from royal courts and from the growing number of towns throughout Europe was overwhelming. Town clocks gave guilds and governments the means to regulate all behavior. In Brussels, textile workers rose at a dawn bell, weavers and twisters ended their day with an evening bell, and there was a special clock for cobblers, In 1355, in Amiens, France, the city government would issue an ordnance “concerning the time when the workers… should go each morning to work, when they should eat and when to return to work after eating; and also in the evening when they should quit work for the day,” and they used a special bell for this purpose.







Excerpt from ‘The Axemaker’s Gift’ by James Burke and Robert Ornstein







I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:









The Axemakers Gift: Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture









Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.







Namaste!

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