Towards Sustainable Living

Prof. S.Sathish ¹ and Mr. Ravi Gangadharaiah Nayaka²,

B.M.S College, Dept of Architecture, Bangalore 560019.

The study is aimed at knowing the limits of growth. This limit to growth will enable us to plan the future with the possibilities of sustainability. Thereby utilizing the resources to its optimum for the whole population to make earth as home. Towards sustainable living should give directions to design Just cities/ settlements of future.

In a hypothetical view sustainable habitat living might be defined as.

Sustainable habitat

A sustainable habitat is an ecosystem that produces food and shelter for people and other organisms, without resource depletion and in such a way that no external waste is produced. Thus the habitat can continue into future time without external infusions of resource. Such a sustainable habitat may evolve naturally or be produced under the influence of man (such as a restored biosphere).

A sustainable habitat that is created and designed by human intelligence will mimic nature, if it is to be successful. Everything within it is connected to a complex array of organisms, physical resources and functions. Organisms from many different biomes can be brought together to fulfill various ecological niches.

Often the term refers to sustainable human habitats, which typically involve some form of green building or environmental planning.

In creating the sustainable habitat, environmental scientists, designers, engineers and architects must consider no element as a waste product to be disposed of somewhere off site, but as a nutrient stream for another process to feed off of. Researching ways to interconnect waste streams to production creates a more sustainable society by minimizing pollution.

People are encouraged by seed companies to grow their “more efficient” crops which represent a small genetic pool. Fewer farmers are now growing traditional varieties that have co-evolved to suit a particular locale. Biodiversity is a key element of a sustainable habitat.

1. Prof. S.Sathish , H.O.D, Dept of Architecture, B.M.S College, Bangalore.

Email. Sathish1953@gmail.com, sathishsrinivas@hotmail.com .

2.Mr. Ravi Gangadharaiah Nayaka, Visiting Faculty, Dept of Architecture, B.M.S College, Bangalore. Email. ravi.gangadhar@gmail.com . web: ekalavyamultiversity.blogspot.com

1. Population limits

a) The human population has limits in between 8-12 billion. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) nearly two centuries ago has predicted that the human population has mathematically permitted limit of 12 billion in a healthy environment. ³

b) According to the latest United Nations population estimates, world population reached the six billion mark on 12 October 1999, an historic milestone in the growth of world population. The marking of a world of six billion just at the dawn of the new millennium is a convergence of events that is attracting widespread global attention. The World at Six Billion was prepared in response to this attention. It provides in tabular and graphic form salient characteristics of past, current and future world population growth.

The twentieth century has witnessed extraordinary population growth. During this century, world population increased from 1.65 billion to 6 billion, and experienced both the highest rate of population growth (averaging 2.04 per cent per year) during the late 1960s, and the largest annual increment to world population (86 million persons each year) in the late 1980s. The world population growth rate has fallen from its peak of 2 per cent per year to around 1.3 per cent today. Nonetheless, world population will continue to increase substantially during the twenty-first century.

United Nations projections (medium fertility scenario) indicate that world population will nearly stabilize at just above 10 billion persons after 2200. However, the twenty-first century is expected to be one of comparatively slower population growth than the previous century, and be characterized by declining fertility and the ageing of populations.⁴

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We need a Habitat designed Globe for 9 billion humans towards sustainable future. Twenty fifty year plans make a millennium plan. We are presently in the first of the twenty fifty year plan which has begun 2000- 2050A.D.

We need not have to board a space ship and go to space, indeed we are in space, and Mother Earth is our space ship. Presently she is traveling with the speed of 80,000 km/hr speed in her orbit around our Father Sun.

Earth is our school we citizens of mother earth are students of life. We all need have to live to learn so as we will learn to live. Live and let live. Grow out our personalities and help our fellow beings to grow out their humane personalities.

The population growth is increasing the demand and hence putting pressure on Natural

Resources to cater to the needs of various requirements of the population in their day-today life. The Natural Resources are converted into an effective product/service through

an appropriate Technology. Excess waste is generated in the process due to ineffective technologies and/or poor Management of technology implemented. An effective utilization of Natural Resources to useful product/service thus requires appropriate Technology, effective Management, and low Waste emissions. An integrated and controlled approach in the Technology, Management, and Waste emissions (TMW) increases the efficiency of Natural Resource conversion.⁶

“Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in a new world: the two essential components of the ultra human. These two components are everywhere in the air…sooner or later there will be a chain reaction.”
- Pierre Teilhard deChardin

2. Land, Resources and Present scenario in India.

Arable land

In geography, arable land (from Latin arare, to plough) is an agricultural term, meaning land that can be used for growing crops.

Of the earth's 148,000,000 km² (57 million square miles) of land, approximately 31,000,000 km² (12 million square miles) are arable; however, arable land is currently being lost at the rate of over 100,000 km² (38,610 square miles) per year.¹⁰

India. Land area: 1,147,949 sq mi (2,973,190 sq km); total area: 1,269,346 sq mi (3,287,590 sq km) of which 54% is arable.

We need have to preserve the arable land and increase it to the 1.5 times the present area, which will serve the 1.5 times the present population which would be our limit. So as we tend towards sustainability.

India accounts for 1/6^th world population. The present poverty scenario in India

1. The All India Poverty line for rural areas is Rs. 327.68 per capita per month at 1999-2000 prices.

2. Urban Poverty line – Rs. 454.11 per capita per month at 1999-2000 prices.

3. State Specific rural poverty lines (for major States):

Kerala : Rs. 374.79 (Max.)

Himachal Pradesh : Rs. 367.45

Assam : Rs. 365.43

Uttar Pradesh : Rs. 336.88

Tamil Nadu : Rs. 307.64

Andhra Pradesh : Rs. 262.94 (Min.)

Proportion of Rural Poor (%)

State/UT’s 1993-94 1999-2000

1. Bihar 58.21 44.30

2. Orissa 49.72 48.01

3. Assam/NE States 45.01 40.04

4. U. P. 42.28 31.22

5. West Bengal 40.80 31.85

6. M. P. 40.64 37.06

7. Maharashtra 37.93 23.72

8. Tamil Nadu 32.48 20.55

9. Karnataka 29.88 17.38

10. Rajasthan 29.46 13.74

11. Haryana 28.02 8.27

12. Kerala 25.75 9.38

13. Gujarat 22.18 13.17

14. Andhra Pradesh 15.92 11.02

15. Punjab 11.95 6.35

16. All States/UTs 37.27 27.09 ⁷

7. Ministry of rural development, Government of India, 2005 report.

3. Present scenario

Poverty Ratio for rural areas reduced from 37.27% in 1993-94 to 27.09% in 1999- 2000.

Absolute number of poor in rural areas decreased from 244 million in 1993-94 to 193.2 million in 1999-2000.

Though in percentage terms the poverty ratio in rural areas reduced by 10.18 points, the absolute number of poor in rural areas is still large.

Source: Planning commission.

The housing shortage is estimated at 14.9 million dwelling units and every year 1 million is added to this number.

8. Source: Planning commission.

TOTAL NO. OF VILLAGES BY STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES (in 2001 and 1991 Censuses)
State Code	Name of States/Union Territories	Number of Villages in 1991*		Number of Villages in 2001 Census#
01	JAMMU & KASHMIR	6,705		6,652
02	HIMACHAL PRADESH	19,388		19,831
03	PUNJAB	12,795		12,729
04	CHANDIGARH	25		24
05	UTTARANCHAL	16,623		16,805
06	HARYANA	6,988		6,955
07	DELHI	209		165
08	RAJASTHAN	39,810		41,353
09	UTTAR PRADESH	107,327		107,440
10	BIHAR	45,077		45,113
11	SIKKIM	453		452
12	ARUNACHAL PRADESH	3,649		4,065
13	NAGALAND	1,225		1,315
14	MANIPUR	2,212		2,391
15	MIZORAM	785		817
16	TRIPURA	856		870
17	MEGHALAYA	5,629		6,023
18	ASSAM	25,590		26,247
19	WEST BENGAL	40,889		40,783
20	JHARKHAND	32,620		32,615
21	ORISSA	51,057		51,352
22	CHHATISGARH	20,378		20,308
23	MADHYA PRADESH	55,842		55,392
24	GUJARAT	18,509		18,544
25	DAMAN & DIU	24		23
26	DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI	71		70
27	MAHARASHTRA	43,025		43,722
28	ANDHRA PRADESH	28,000		28,123
29	KARNATAKA	29,193		29,483
30	GOA	369		359
31	LAKSHADWEEP	23		24
32	KERALA	1,384		1,364
33	TAMIL NADU	16,780		16,317
34	PONDICHERRY	264		92
35	ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS	547		547
	INDIA	634,321		638,365
Note:
*	Number of villages in both 1991 & 2001 Censuses include uninhabited villages
#	The number of villages indicated for each state/union territory for 2001 is provisional

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4. Support from United Nations.

The United Nations Housing Rights Programme (UNHRP) was launched in April 2002, as a joint initiative by UN-HABITAT and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The substantive focus of the programme is grounded in the Habitat Agenda which states that "Within the overall context of an enabling approach, Governments should take appropriate action in order to promote, protect and ensure the full and progressive realization of the right to adequate housing" (paragraph 61). The development objective of the UNHRP is to assist States and other stakeholders with the implementation of their commitments in the Habitat Agenda to ensure the full and progressive realization of the right to adequate housing as provided for in international instruments.

"We [the Heads of State or Government] reaffirm our commitment to the full and progressive realization of the right to adequate housing, as provided for in international instruments." Istanbul Declaration (paragraph 8) and the Habitat Agenda (paragraph 39)*.

*A. Adequate shelter for all

39. We reaffirm our commitment to the full and progressive realization of the right to adequate housing, as provided for in international instruments. In this context, we recognize an obligation by Governments to enable people to obtain shelter and to protect and improve dwellings and neighbourhoods. We commit ourselves to the goal of improving living and working conditions on an equitable and sustainable basis, so that everyone will have adequate shelter that is healthy, safe, secure, accessible and affordable and that includes basic services, facilities and amenities, and will enjoy freedom from discrimination in housing and legal security of tenure. We shall implement and promote this objective in a manner fully consistent with human rights standards.

Financing for development

23. We reaffirm the Monterrey Consensus and recognize that mobilizing financial resources for development and the effective use of those resources in developing countries and countries with economies in transition are central to a global partnership for development in support of the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals. In this regard:

a) We are encouraged by recent commitments to substantial increases in official development assistance, and the OECD estimate that ODA to all developing countries will now increase by around US$50 billion a year by 2010, while recognizing that a substantial increase in such assistance is required to achieve the internationally agreed goals, including, the Millennium Development Goals within their respective timeframes.

b) We welcome the increased resources that will become available as a result of the establishment of timetables by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of GNP for ODA by 2015 and to reach at least 0.5 per cent of GNP for ODA by 2010, as well as pursuant to the Brussels Programme of Action for the LDCs to reach 0.15 per cent to 0.20 per cent to Least Developed Countries by no later than 2010, and urge those developed countries that have not yet done so to make concrete efforts in this regard in accordance with their commitments.

• Transforming problem neighbourhoods into vibrant communities: the role of housing in creating safer cities and communities. Housing policy and land management are increasingly seen as important instruments for improving living conditions in slums and making cities safer and more livable. How can an integrated housing policy reduce crime and violence in cities?

• Reconstruction and peace building after conflicts: support from local governments. Local governments in post-conflict areas face many challenges in securing the safe and just return of refugees to their home towns. To what extent can partner local governments abroad help address these challenges?

• The restitution of land, houses and properties to returning refugees: a tool for reconstruction. The restitution of housing, land and property to returning refugees and displaced persons is increasingly seen as an important condition for sustainable security in post-conflict situations. Applying the Pinheiro Principles lets us identify the challenges and solutions in rebuilding a society.¹⁰

Local governments play a vital part in making cities safe and stable places to live. But solving the complex causes underlying urban problems requires commitment, knowledge and action, especially at local level.

The new vision of reality requires us to review our origins, the nature of evolution and the basic cause behind the need of healing for the individual, society and the global civilization. We have to reevaluate ourselves and our mode of development as the prime cause of the problems we are facing.

"Ultimately, this Earth can be saved from mankind only if people are prepared to live with nature, rather than upon nature. We have been taught that this world, and all plants and creatures thereon, were created for man's use: that he was given dominion over all other forms of life and that he must go forth and multiply. It is now clear that if he follows that belief his extinction is inevitable. Therefore, his whole relationship with Earth, with nature, must change rapidly. But relationships between individuals or between man and his environment are intellectual and of the spirit, rather than of material gain or loss."

- Sir Mark Oliphant (Father of Australian Science) - personal communication to Dr Michael Ellis.

10. United Nations Habitat issues.

5. Conclusion:

POPULATION GROWTH

• Until the Middle Ages, human populations were held in check by diseases, famines and wars, and thus grew very slowly.

  • It took all of human history to reach 1 billion.

  • 150 years to reach 3 billion

  • 12 years to go from 3 to 6 billion

    • Human population tripled during the twentieth century.

FUTURE OF HUMAN POPULATIONS

Most demographers believe the world population will stabilize sometime during the next century.

• Projections of maximum population size:

  • Low 8 billion.

  • Medium 9.3 billion.

  • High 13 billion.

Anticipate other’s Needs

We might have a greater understanding of the needs of our loved ones, and this could make us much more cooperative and willing to help them out today. Although it is impossible to truly know what other people need, because of the closeness we share with those around us it may be easier to do things for them without being asked. Maybe this would be a good opportunity for us to learn to anticipate what another person wants without being asked. There might be something in their voice, for example, that signals that kind and sympathetic words are needed, or perhaps we notice that something as simple as helping with an everyday task might be useful.

Compassion toward others comes from being able to see what we can do to alleviate their suffering. When we are able to accommodate other’s needs, it is usually because we make the effort to be consciously aware of what is most important to them, even if they don’t overtly tell us. As we allow ourselves to become more attuned to others, our ability to identify with and sense their struggles grows, causing us to be more empathetic and considerate of their thoughts and wants.

Sustainable living might be defined as a lifestyle that could, hypothetically, be sustained without exhausting any natural resources. The term can be applied to individuals or societies. Its adherents most often hold true sustainability as a goal or guide, and make lifestyle tradeoffs favoring sustainability.

Local governments play a vital part in making cities safe and stable places to live. But solving the complex causes underlying urban problems requires commitment, knowledge and action, especially at local level.

The New Paradigm Integrating Spirituality and Science.

Einstein, 50 years ago, said "if humanity is to survive, there has to be a substantially new manner of thinking. He also said "A human being is part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences in himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature.

One Last Demographic Effect of Population Growth is Population Equals Regulation.

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^{4. United nations Population report.}

4^5. Source: Population Reference Bureau; and United Nations, World Population Projections to 2100 (1998).

6. Introduction from the abstract A MODEL FOR EFFICIENT RESOURCE UTILIZATION:

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION B.V. Babu and V. Ramakrishna

Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani. 333031

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AVATARAS AFFIRM ETERNAL VERITIES

Often do the spirits of great events of great events stride on before the events, and in today already walks tomorrow.

The people who knew tomorrow.

The present crisis of faith.

AVATARAS AFFIRM ETERNAL VERITIES

The divine power regularly comes down to the earthly plane to raise it to a higher status. The purpose of divine descent is to inaugurate a new world (yuga) re-establish eternal religion and strike at the formalistic and ritualistic part of religion which invariably detaches people from ultimate reality and perpetuates ignorance of the people. The descent of the divine into the human souls should rise. The birth of the birth less means the revelation of the mystery in the soul of man.

During every incarnation and manifestation of the lord on earthly plane in human garb, the ancient yoga imparted to the disciples has remained the same in its essence. The outward behavior of avatars was different; the connotation and etymology used for the ancient yoga by the mahapurusha’s differed for linguistic. Geographical and contextual reasons. The essence, spirit and the methodology of the imparting this jnana has never changed. In all the nomenclatures used, there has been perfect similarity and commonness of essential constituents making up the ancient yoga which leads the seeker of truth to self-realization and God-realization within this human body. The process the spiritual teacher bestows on his disciple the inward eye. I.e. gnana chaksu. The two physical eyes do not enable man to see metaphysical form of god as these are meant and restricted to see the Maya ridden physical world of objects.

The ancient yoga which they preach and expound is, in fact the eternal religion, Sanatana Dharma. They inspire people to rise above darmakandas.

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

The lord assumes embodiment through his own free will and divine potency. Thus, whenever righteousness to preserve equilibrium becomes essential. The supreme Brahman though unborn and undying, becomes manifest in human embodiment for extirpation of the forces of ignorance and selfishness.

“Revelation of the supreme secret of god is never closed so long as the human heart is receptive and exhibits qualities of devotion and love. Revelation is not an event of the past but one, which continues today. It is not the privilege of a few but is an experience open to all.”

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

We are never losers, until we quit trying.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever, its beauty increases, it never goes to nothingness.

Awakening the self- A human being is part of the whole, called by us “universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

–Albert Einstein.

Contents :--

The present crisis of faith:

Avatar’s affirm eternal verities.

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

Judging gifted ness.

New renaissance.

Karma: the law of cause and effect

Dharma : what is right:

Moksha : liberation from samara/earthly bondage.

Linking science to spirituality.

Shadow worlds

Marriage of Heaven and Hell

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite for man has closed himself up, ‘till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks, in his cavern

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MEANING OF GIFTEDNESS- as a child prodigy.

Giftedness is described in its social context. It is reviewed through history to the present day in these terms. The traditional mythic view of gifted children and their behavior is examined, scientific evidence is little, but even so it is so often ignored. The effect of mythic thinking is considered in the identification of gifted children and the present interest in gifted children is examined.

Learning to be gifted- Growing up in society; how a gifted child learns the social mores of society in which it is born. Family influences are described and their resulting effects on the gifted children.

JUDGING GIFTEDNESS: -

Physical and mental development of gifted children should be nurtured. Reference is made to early simulation, nourishment etc., a discussion is offered of what intelligence might be, and the controversy over its measurements.

è The formation of world governance is the only possible solution for the resolution of current crises.

è When are we to observe oneness factually?

è Humans are the leastly populated species in the universe, as per, the understanding of 2k1 humans.

Not more than the number of atoms present in the thumb is the number of humans on the planet earth.

We are all humans with unique personalities. we are citizens of earth. Sheltered in multiverse

When are every one going to realize the facts.

STOP EXISTING START LIVING. BE GOOD FOR YOUR OWN GOODNESS.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever its beauty increases it never goes to nothingness.

MILLIONS SAW APPLE FALLING ONLY NEWTON ANSWERED WHY.

è Matter has reached the point of beginning to know itself… (man is) a star’s way of knowing about stars.

a great many people will think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Finally all these imply-

Life itself is a pre-described relaxed act

We need not have to act fast. Resonate with it.

NEW RENAISSANCE.

HUMOUR IS BY FAR THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BEHAVIOUR OF THE HUMAN MIND.

You may find this surprising. If humor is so very significant, why has it been so neglected by traditional philosophers, psychologist and information scientists?

Why humor is so significant and why it has been so neglected by traditional thinkers together form the key to my every action. Humor tells us more about how the brain works as mind-including reason. It indicates that our traditional thinking methods, and our thinking about these methods, have been based

The Hindu concept of god is one of an ultimate Absolute, which cannot be described in any way: it is nirguana, ’without qualities’. Everything in the universe is seen as a particle of manifestation of this absolute is also with qualities, that is, it is saguna. It is saguna when it is everything in the universe. But the possibilities of such manifestations are endless, limitless: so Brahman can take any form, indeed already is every form. The avatars represent manifestations of the divine, which are intermediaries between the absolute and humankind. They represent the ideal in morality, justice, devotion to duty and perfection- the capabilities of human beings when they realize the divine particle, the atman within themselves.

The Ramayana and the Mahabharatha give us a thorough understanding of the concept of dharma-‘what is right’; ram is the embodiment of dharma. So ram and sita are perfect examples of how man and woman should be, both individually and in their relationship with each other. The epics, then, bring the complex concept of dharma into real situations, in this way providing moral guidance in a very concrete form for the Hindu ‘what is right’ is learnt through the characters of ram, sita and lakshman rather than through philosophical speculation. Not only, then, does such smrti literature bring people close to god, but it also shows what is required of them at their very best.

KARMA: The law of cause and effect.

Karma means ‘act’, ‘action’ or ’activity’ and refers, not only to actions undertaken by the body, but also to those undertaken by the mind. Karma is actually action and reaction for Hindus believe that all actions produce results and it is this theory that is behind the concept if samsara. As we know from life itself, not all actions produce immediate results, particularly those actions of the mind, so it may be a very long time before the results of certain actions, whether physical or mental come to fructification.

This means that results of actions may come about in later existences. It is the jivatman, the personality with its many positive and negative likes and dislikes and positive and negative actions, which causes karma. Every time we do something or think something, we create a cause and having created a cause we must have an effect, a result.

So each individual goes through life creating the kinds of results which will be stored up to form his or her jivatman in the next existence. Each person chooses how to act or think, so each person’s karma is his or her own and equally so the results of those choices belong to that person. So if choices are good, then results in the next life will be good, but if the choices are bad then the just rewards of such will be reaped also in subsequent lives. If actions are very bad then a person may actually devolve and degenerate into a lower life form as an animal. Westerners sometimes see the operation of karma as fatalistic, but it is far from this, since, while an individual can do nothing about the karma he/she must reap, all of an individual’s future lives are affected by present actions, thoughts and words: we shape our own future. And while it is also suggested by some that the status quo in India is maintained with regard to poverty, there are many Hindus who would counter-claim that responsibility and care for the poor is one of the means by which good karma can be promoted.

Dharma: what is right.

In order to achieve good karma it is important to live according to dharma, what is right? This involves doing what is right for the individual the family, the class or caste and also for the universe itself. Dharma is like a cosmic norm and if one goes against the cosmic norm or the norm for the individual or class, then bad karma can result. But dharma also affects the future, for each individual has his or her own dharmic path dependent on the karma, which has been accumulated. So one’s dharmic path in the next life is the one necessary to bring to fruition of the results of the past karma and is thus right for the individual, even though it may be a difficult path.

Moksa: liberation from samsara

The ultimate aim of every Hindu is that one day the endless cycle of samsara will be over and there will be no necessary to be reincarnated. This can only happen when there is no karma to cause an individual to be reincarnated because there is no egoistic self, no ‘I’ to reap any results. This is moksa, liberation from the cycle of samsara. It is thus achieved when the jivatman loses its good and bad karma and has no karma at all. To achieve this Hindus have many paths, it is not something, which can be achieved in only one way. But when a person realizes moksa, the atman – the part of the individual, which is Brahman-merges with Brahman like the river, merges into the sea. The jivatman is gone and only pure atman, which is Brahman, remains.

Linking Science to spirituality-

The absolute force or prana is not merely fictitious in nature, at most people tend to believe but can be realized as a personal goal. Can be realized as a personal goal. We already know that the practice of the ancient science of yoga does not only help relieve us from different kinds of stress and tensions of modern life and keep us fit, but it can achieve the final goal of uniting the individual unit /prana of the body with the main universal absolute force. One of the more scientific explanations for prana is that this absolute force remains hidden in our bodies mainly in the central nervous system (c.n.s), and in the cerebro-spinal fluid, filled in the spinal canal of the spinal cord.

Meditation is a process in which conscious thoughts, generated by the interaction of genes, are made to enter into subconscious thoughts and their cumulative energy force leads to generate an unconscious psychodynamic power that is utilized to control the normal body currents/bio-rhythms. By will the cumulative energy force can be focused, transformed, tuned directed and can be made gradually and progressively super-subtle to release the body’s absolute force.

WHOSE GLOBE? WHOSE CONCERNS?

HOW TO SAVE THE EARTH?

and the heroes and zeros for the planet who are making it happen.

There is a time and a place and courage for saying something. The new Renaissance needs a formal announcement in order that people may notice it and focus upon it with hope and resolve. That is the purpose of this shit.

To announce a new Renaissance will always seem presumptuous and provocative, whoever makes the announcement and with whatever justification. Surely such things just happen without anyone making a formal announcement to create a self-fulfilling prophecy in that if we believe in a New Renaissance we shall make it happen?

We do need to believe in the possibility of a new Renaissance because it is possible. There is always value in recognizing something that is already happening. Why delay recognition.?

On what is the new renaissance to be based?

The last Renaissance was clearly based on the re-discovery of ancient Greek(about 400BC). Thinking habits of logic, reason, argument, truth and the importance of man. Before the last Renaissance the thinking habits of the western world were derived entirely from dogma and theology. Maps of the world hat to show large land masses with Jerusalem at the dead center-not because the experience of navigators had suggested such a disposition of land but be.

Shadow worlds :

It is all around us, a parallel universe of mirror galaxies, mirror planets… even mirror life.

The world on the other side of the mirror is a favorite of fantasy writers; a place where everything is subtly twisted, where things impossible in our world can happen. Scores of fictional adventurers, from Alice onwards, have stepped through into that reflected realm. But it could be that the world on the other side of the mirror is more than a fantasy.

Physicists suspect that a parallel universe of mirror matter might surround us, where mirror particles assemble themselves into mirror galaxies, mirror stars and mirror planets-even mirror life. And two scientists will soon try to get a first glimpse into the mirror world

Just like the mirror worlds of fantasy, it is a dominion subtly different from our own. If you look at yourself in a mirror. The reflected you seems to behave in just the same way as the real one, only back-to-front. But look more closely and you’ll find that nature’s symmetry is flawed.

When physicists examine some known processes involving fundamental particles examine some known processes involving fundamental particles, they find that the mirror-image processes involving fundamental particles, they find that the mirror-image process is not always possible. For instance, when an atom decays to create a neutrino, the neutrino always spins in the same direction, left-handedly. If it were coming towards you, you’d see it spinning clockwise-in other words it twists like a left-handed corkscrew.

But we never see right-handed neutrinos. Wouldn’t it be more pleasing if both types of neutrino existed, and nature were mirror symmetric?

The universe does not keep on bifurcating in this fashion. Rather, there are an infinite number of universes even to start with. These exist in a super space. When the wave function evolves, each universe carries a component. But these components representing alternative “realities” are tied together until we make an observation cuts these mysterious bonds and liberates these and he mistakenly thinks that the wave function has collapsed, the rest of the wave function having vanished into thin air. There is no collapse and so there is no problem about how the wave function mysteriously jumps.

Why should we believe in such a monstrous suggestion(about many universes)?

I suppose the first reason is that the theory, which predicts them, is the simplest interpretation of quantum theory…

You say it is the simplest interpretation of quantum theory but it seems like a very complicated interpretation… in what sense is it the simplest?

It is by far the simplest in that it involves the fewest additional assumptions beyond those, which correctly predict the results of experiments…

So parallel universes are cheap on assumptions but expensive on universes?

Exactly right. In physics we always try to make things cheap on assumptions.

What in your opinion is wrong with the standard Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics?

In quantum cosmology, one tries to apply quantum mechanics to the universe as a whole… and immediately one has to stop… it’s logically inconsistent to imagine fails to describe quantum cosmology. Even if we know how to write down the theory of quantum cosmology, which is quite hard incidentally, we literally wouldn’t know what the symbols meant under any interpretation other than the eve ret interpretation.

The many universes theory can be put to a test?

The snag is that we have to deal with observers in these other universes, and we don’t know how to do that. However, there is a way out because if we the observers (in our universe) ourselves encountered the different possibilities in the experiment, these possibilities would be registered differently in our memory. So we must dream up an experiment in which there is an interference effect between these different states of memory. Notice that I am essentially talking of quantum effects in the brain! Unfortunately, we know so little about the brain that to plan an experiment based on its quantum features is far out in the future. But we don’t really need a human brain.

We have all, I hope, agreed on one important point: that whatever may be the ultimate nature of the world; it is, as long as we inhabit it, very real. A dream maybe, but one which has all the appearance of reality and which manifests itself according to an apparently logical plan. Banish all speculations other than purely psychological ones, we are going to “get on with the job’ as regards tendering what advice we may on how to make the most of ourselves in a universe whose (temporary) nature we have to apprehend and whose psychological laws (pre-eminent among which is the law of love) we have to accept if we wish to avoid disappointment.

Most of us have suffered defeats in our efforts to make friends. Most of us have spent a great deal of time in wondering why. Some of us, owing to faulty observation or imperfect deduction, have not found the answer and have been tempted to wander hence forth in the unprofitable desert o egotism, attempting to achieve the impossible task of being a low unto ourselves.

The answer to the inability to attract people to oneself and so to cut off a good ninety-nine percent of life’s pleasures, lies in a paradox; in one of those eternal contradictions which have to be resolved and accepted unless we wish to confess ourselves abject failures.

It involves the facing of certain stark, irrefutable facts. Facts which may come as a little of a shock to those who have not exerted their capacity for analysis.

Here is the first, and most inescapable of these. No one is interested in us unless we are interested in them! It does not matter if we have the wisdom of Solomon, the beauty of Venus, the social eminence of a king or president, no one really cares a rap about us (expect as the occasion for yawning) unless we have taken the trouble to soft-pedal our own petty preoccupations and vanities and allowed the other person to expand. It is only when other people realize that they have met someone in whose company they will have an opportunity to expand, that they begin to reflect “what a charming person so-and-so is! There is something like about that man. I must see more of him.”/’