Homosapiens – Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date! – Podcast Episode 28

Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date! Welcome back to the 28th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! Today’s episode titled “Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date!” will tell you about human achievements vs losses through homo sapiens bipedal evolution. We humans have been extremely successful in achieving an unchallenged control over the planet we live on, something none of the other 8.7 million living species could even dream of. Homo sapiens are ruling the planet at present like dinosaurs once did. As a species, we have made immense progress in creating tools that gave us the power to establish the said control. SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take through the way it postures its joints. I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally I come up with a new weekly episode every Tuesday morning for miraculous healing enthusiasts to effectively start their weekdays with what they like the most! Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date! - Show Notes In this thought-provoking episode of Skeletal Leap, titled “Homo Sapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date,” I explore the remarkable yet tumultuous path of human evolution and the consequences of our advancements. Join me as I dive deep into the duality of human achievements versus losses throughout our bipedal evolution. Discover how Homo sapiens have gained unprecedented control over the planet, surpassing the capabilities of our fellow species, yet simultaneously sowing the seeds of our own potential demise. From the dawn of tool-making to the rise of complex societal structures, learn how our superior communication skills and abstract thinking have propelled us forward. However, this journey has not been without its pitfalls; the very myths we created to unite us have also led to fragmentation and conflict. As we stand on the brink of irreversible climate change, I challenge my species to confront the greed and fear that have driven our unsustainable progress. I emphasize the urgent need for a shift in our collective mindset—from competition to cooperation, from a fragmented mind to a unified consciousness. This episode invites you to reflect on our collective responsibility and the power of an empty mind in fostering genuine understanding and action. Can we learn from our past mistakes and pave the way for a sustainable future?  Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date! - Chapters Chapters: (00:00:01) - Human Accomplies vs Losses Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date! - Video Homosapiens: Ultimate Gains and Losses to Date! - Transcript with Timestamps 0:00:01.200,0:00:06.240 “What to Do Now? Today, if we are humble enough to learn 0:00:06.240,0:00:22.080 our lesson, we need to take immediate action. How do we do that?” 0:00:22.080,0:00:26.560 My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: 0:00:26.560,0:00:34.400 A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap  transforms one’s life into a personal heaven. 0:00:34.400,0:00:36.880 Today’s episode will tell you about human 0:00:36.880,0:00:42.560 achievements vs losses through  homo sapiens bipedal evolution. 0:00:42.560,0:00:48.320 We humans have been extremely successful in  achieving an unchallenged control over the 0:00:48.320,0:00:55.600 planet we live on, something none of the other  8.7 million living species could even dream of. 0:00:56.240,0:01:02.080 Homo sapiens are ruling the planet  at present like dinosaurs once did. 0:01:02.080,0:01:08.240 As a species, we have made immense progress in  creating tools that gave us the power to establish 0:01:08.240,0:01:15.440 the said control. The tools kept getting more and  more sophisticated as did our brain’s ability to 0:01:15.440,0:01:23.520 think in abstraction. We, the sapiens, had  another exclusive advantage at our behest. 0:01:24.240,0:01:29.520 We could communicate much better with one  another through the use of our language that 0:01:29.520,0:01:37.040 was way superior to that of other Homo species.  Hence we were better able to cooperate in groups 0:01:37.040,0:01:43.200 while fighting with our competitors for the  purpose of dominance over them. Neanderthals 0:01:43.200,0:01:48.560 who were physically stronger and other Homo  species could not do it so effectively among 0:01:48.560,0:01:55.600 themselves and slowly went out of existence.  It was then that the Homo sapiens discovered 0:01:55.600,0:02:02.480 the power of the mind in creating mythological  stories, thanks to their superior language. And 0:02:02.480,0:02:11.920 then, they soon started believing in them! As  this happened, it acted as a double-edged sword. 0:02:11.920,0:02:18.480 It started imparting an autonomous status to the  mind as separate from a reviewer of the brain’s 0:02:18.480,0:02:26.800 perception and action. It helped the Homo sapiens,  driven by their fictitious beliefs, to start 0:02:26.800,0:02:34.880 cooperating in bigger and bigger groups to achieve  dominance over the planet as a species. But then, 0:02:34.880,0:02:42.480 humanity didn’t stop over there. It allowed these  fictitious beliefs to turn into a unique kind of 0:02:42.480,0:02:50.480 auto-immune disease, not of the individual but of  society. A disease that we have been dealing with 0:02:50.480,0:02:58.720 the repercussions of, ever since. Wars became the order of the day. 0:02:58.720,0:03:03.600 Marked by the dominance of massive groups  cooperating among themselves in an effort 0:03:03.600,0:03:09.680 to annihilate other massive groups, these  wars paved the path for the competitive 0:03:09.680,0:03:15.440 growth of Homo sapiens’ civilization. Since then, the story of the growth of 0:03:15.440,0:03:22.800 human civilization has remained much the same  to date. That is why and how these mythological 0:03:22.800,0:03:31.120 stories acted as double-edged swords. Though  they created vast cooperating groups furthering 0:03:31.120,0:03:37.040 tremendous growth and development, the  said growth always remained fragmented. 0:03:37.680,0:03:44.160 The groups remained disparate, miserably  failing to operate as one single cooperating 0:03:44.160,0:03:51.280 group of a species called Homo sapiens.  This was the power of our fragmented minds 0:03:51.280,0:03:57.520 following our fragmented beliefs via our  fragmented stories that took dominance 0:03:57.520,0:04:06.320 over the marvels of the spontaneous brains of a  unique species that we, the Homo sapiens, were. 0:04:06.320,0:04:10.560 Nevertheless, the power to think  in abstraction was a great leap in 0:04:10.560,0:04:18.560 the evolution of the human brain. It gave  birth to new disciplines in science, arts, 0:04:18.560,0:04:27.360 technology and commerce. Human culture started  prospering with inventions of digits and letters 0:04:27.360,0:04:33.920 resulting in mathematics to calculate on one  hand and language to communicate on the other. 0:04:34.640,0:04:39.680 Today, we marvel at our own achievements  within such a short span of time, 0:04:39.680,0:04:47.840 evolutionarily speaking. Once we, the Homo  sapiens, started galloping along the track 0:04:47.840,0:04:55.760 of new discoveries and inventions, we never  stopped. It has been too fast an evolution of 0:04:55.760,0:05:03.680 the brain in too short a span of time. Overall,  our brain size has increased 2-3 times within 0:05:03.680,0:05:10.880 the last 3 million years, starting with the  species named Australopithecus. This was a 0:05:10.880,0:05:18.400 group of hominins from which humans are supposed  to have descended. These 3 million years is quite 0:05:18.400,0:05:25.360 a small fraction of time when compared  to the 3 billion years of life on earth. 0:05:25.360,0:05:34.640 And surprisingly, that process of evolution  is still on! And at the same break-neck speed! 0:05:34.640,0:05:39.760 The Tipping Point of Crisis We have almost reached the edge 0:05:39.760,0:05:45.920 of the point of no return from the harmful  effects of human-induced climate change. 0:05:45.920,0:05:51.840 As of today, the two major ice sheets  at Greenland and Antarctica are melting 0:05:51.840,0:05:57.920 speedily. If the greenhouse gases are not  stopped from emitting further, the rise of 0:05:57.920,0:06:04.640 the global sea level is going to cause havoc. If the global temperature ultimately increases 0:06:04.640,0:06:14.160 by 1.5-2oC, the melting of these ice sheets  may become irreversible. Higher rainfall and 0:06:14.160,0:06:20.960 higher flooding events would engulf the northern  hemisphere. It would end up in the extinction 0:06:20.960,0:06:28.960 of quite a few species of plants, insects and  vertebrates. Under extreme weather conditions, 0:06:28.960,0:06:36.400 there are going to be way more spontaneous forest  fires. And we have already started seeing all 0:06:36.400,0:06:42.640 these effects in just the past few years! As David Attenborough said, 0:06:42.640,0:06:49.280 “What we do in the next twenty years will  determine the future of all life on earth.” 0:06:49.280,0:07:00.080 Who is to be blamed for it? Our mind, our society and our culture! Who else? 0:07:00.080,0:07:08.960 Our mind is greedy. It is greedy because it is  fearful. We, as a species, wanted to progress 0:07:08.960,0:07:17.440 as much as we could, as fast as we could. We overexploited our planet’s resources, 0:07:17.440,0:07:25.440 without giving it back what we took from  it. Earth wants to take everything back now. 0:07:25.440,0:07:32.800 Isn’t it a lesson for our mind? Isn’t it a lesson  for the way we have structured our society? 0:07:32.800,0:07:39.520 Isn’t it an indictment of the value system  that we have erected human culture on? 0:07:39.520,0:07:45.200 Where did we go wrong? What  was our earliest mistake? 0:07:45.200,0:07:51.040 Remember I had said that the mind gets  subjectively attached to its faulty apprehensions 0:07:51.040,0:08:01.040 of threat to life, in Episode 20? It overrates the  instincts of self-preservation. On the other hand, 0:08:01.040,0:08:10.000 it suppresses and even represses death instincts.  That is how it distorts reality and corrupts human 0:08:10.000,0:08:18.320 action. It is because all death instincts  including curiosity, interaction, adventure, 0:08:18.320,0:08:27.120 love and sex turn us passionate, insightful  and people-centric. On the other hand, 0:08:27.120,0:08:34.240 self-preservative instincts turn us stupidly  emotional, greedy and self-centric more than 0:08:34.240,0:08:41.920 people-centric.  They want growth as much and  as fast as possible whereas death instincts 0:08:41.920,0:08:50.480 are way saner in their approach. In its greed,  humanity sided with the fastest possible rather 0:08:50.480,0:08:57.280 than sustainable growth that is in tune with all  of nature and, therefore, would have given rise to 0:08:57.280,0:09:04.560 a different paradigm of ‘quality’ of life. That is why and how the brain is way more 0:09:04.560,0:09:13.360 intelligent than the mind. In fact, the mind  can very easily go stupid. Brain never does. 0:09:13.360,0:09:22.800 That was our very first mistake. In fact, that  was our Original Sin, if any. We gave the entire 0:09:22.800,0:09:32.000 reigns of comprehending psychedelic (incognizable)  reality in a cognizable way to the mind. Reality 0:09:32.000,0:09:40.400 is right, only its cognition is not. We shouldn’t  have made the mind an autonomous entity having the 0:09:40.400,0:09:47.920 power to comprehend reality anyway it likes. It  should have been kept subservient to the brain, 0:09:47.920,0:09:55.680 the real master of perception and action. Had we managed to do that, psychology as an 0:09:55.680,0:10:01.040 autonomous science would have been redundant.  It would rather have been a subordinate 0:10:01.040,0:10:08.480 discipline under physiology or neurology. Even with our bloated, fragmented minds, 0:10:08.480,0:10:16.480 we can still get rid of our old prejudices  for/ against fragmented groups that are busy 0:10:16.480,0:10:24.160 cooperating within themselves in order to compete  with or even annihilate others within our own 0:10:24.160,0:10:33.440 species. Today, we can give credit to our expanded  awareness of undivided humanity and stop believing 0:10:33.440,0:10:40.560 in the fragmenting stories created by our  fragmented minds all those thousands of years ago! 0:10:40.560,0:10:47.920 I know I am asking for a big, huge lot. I am  asking for a paradigm shift in our comprehension 0:10:47.920,0:10:55.840 of reality. For this to be possible, the mind  needs to comprehend reality as per the neural 0:10:55.840,0:11:02.640 dictates of the nervous system. It needs to  follow commands of the brain and its entire 0:11:02.640,0:11:10.400 nervous system without trying to affect them  at all. As it right now is, the mind limits 0:11:10.400,0:11:18.160 the efficiency of the brain by corrupting its  perception and consequent spontaneous action. 0:11:18.160,0:11:23.520 That is how, in its greed, it gave a signal  to the best of the human brains to make 0:11:23.520,0:11:32.400 so-called progress as fast as possible.  And look where that has brought us today! 0:11:32.400,0:11:37.440 What to Do Now? Today, if we are humble enough to learn 0:11:37.440,0:11:43.440 our lesson, we need to take immediate action. How do we do that? 0:11:44.080,0:11:49.280 We simply need to empty our mind of all the  garbage it has collected in the past thousands of 0:11:49.280,0:12:00.800 years. All its beliefs, all its attachments, all  its prejudices, its morals and emotions! It needs 0:12:00.800,0:12:08.480 to be left alone with what it is there for, i.e.,  the subjective cognition of instinctual awareness. 0:12:09.200,0:12:14.400 It should be left alone as the sense  of ‘I’ with just the set of instincts 0:12:14.400,0:12:21.360 human nature has already provided us with. We can afford to do it today although we could 0:12:21.360,0:12:28.720 never have done so till date without risking  our very existence on the planet. Right now, 0:12:28.720,0:12:34.480 no other species is left to claim  its dominance on the planet. We don’t 0:12:34.480,0:12:41.120 need to compete with our siblings any more. Competition has already played its commendable 0:12:41.120,0:12:49.040 role in safeguarding us up to this point of time.  But if it continues, it will turn against our own 0:12:49.040,0:12:59.440 self, as a species. Where else does this happen?  In our own bodies. Exactly like the immunity in 0:12:59.440,0:13:06.560 our bodies that competes against foreign entities  to protect us sometimes turns on itself leading 0:13:06.560,0:13:14.320 to autoimmune diseases, our intra-species  competition is threatening to wipe us out. 0:13:14.320,0:13:19.360 What we need today is a world-wide  cooperation or else, we will run 0:13:19.360,0:13:26.800 our species out of existence. It will be nothing  less than a suicidal act on our collective part. 0:13:27.680,0:13:36.400 Cooperation over competition! Brain over  mind!! Even better, an empty mind!!! 0:13:36.400,0:13:41.120 Okay, what does the mind  do when it is left emptied? 0:13:41.120,0:13:47.440 It gives a cognizable meaning to the psychedelic  perceptions and spontaneous actions of the brain 0:13:47.440,0:13:54.240 without generating beliefs around them. We need to go agnostic in the truest sense 0:13:54.240,0:14:02.160 of the word. When that happens, we stop living in  our past and/ or future with emotional attachments 0:14:02.160,0:14:10.320 to them. Passion replaces emotions. We are able  to centrally fixate our passionate attention on 0:14:10.320,0:14:16.720 the perception and action of the very present  moment. Central fixation makes it possible for 0:14:16.720,0:14:23.520 the brain to spontaneously think the best without  being distorted by emotional thoughts of the mind. 0:14:24.160,0:14:32.160 When this happens, action is the next spontaneous  step taken by the brain instantaneously. Even 0:14:32.160,0:14:36.640 artificial intelligence (AI) will never  be able to match the human brain since, 0:14:36.640,0:14:42.880 even at its best, it can only  achieve speed but never spontaneity. 0:14:42.880,0:14:52.400 In my first language named Hindi, past is named  ‘bhoot’ meaning ’ghost’. I find that hilarious. 0:14:53.360,0:15:00.560 It seems to me to be the best description of  the past. Past is dead and we keep emotionally 0:15:00.560,0:15:07.520 clinging to its ghost or to its cousin,  i.e., its own projection as the future. 0:15:07.520,0:15:14.720 These ghosts masquerading as thoughts possess  our brain and limit or distort its capability 0:15:14.720,0:15:22.480 to spontaneously think without any deterrents.  Thinking is the handiwork of the brain. Chewing 0:15:22.480,0:15:27.760 the cud of thoughts is the handiwork of  the mind. Thinking and chewing the cud of 0:15:27.760,0:15:34.560 thoughts are two diametrically opposite  actions. Let us start thinking as real 0:15:34.560,0:15:41.200 intelligent organisms. Let us stop chewing  the cud of thoughts as stupid dead ghosts. 0:15:41.920,0:15:47.120 Let us tackle these impending emergencies of  human-induced climate change in an absolutely 0:15:47.120,0:15:54.320 intelligent way…while we still can! And that  absolute intelligence can only arise from an 0:15:54.320,0:15:56.800 empty mind. But what’s 0:15:56.800,0:16:03.760 the modus operandi of emptying the mind? We have already discussed this in all its 0:16:03.760,0:16:13.520 conceptual details as Skeletal Leap in Episode 26  and Episode 27. However, that is at the level of 0:16:13.520,0:16:22.640 an individual. It is my contention that a similar  approach can be extended to society, as a whole. 0:16:22.640,0:16:28.320 Thanks for listening to this episode  of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! 0:16:28.320,0:16:35.360 In the next episode, I will tell you about  sociocultural chakras on the lines of Maslow’s 0:16:35.360,0:16:43.680 hierarchy of needs turning to wants and thus  affecting sociocultural evolution negatively. 0:16:43.680,0:16:47.600 Be a part of Skeletal Leap Community! 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