A cat does not need a college degree to learn to catch a mouse. A baby doesn’t need a school education to know where to look for milk. A butterfly avoids flowers from genetically modified plants. A tiger doesn’t eat a lion or a leopard.
We call this “Atmik” knowledge. Knowledge that we come pre programmed with. Like a factory installed app on a mobile phone.
One of the things western education has done well – to disastrous consequences – is to suppress atmik knowledge and to replace it with bookish knowledge which is possibly wrong.
Take food. Tobacco was touted as the original superfood. Now hemp is being positioned that way. We have been conditioned to like things which would fail the Atmik test of being food. And then we wonder why the body sensors don’t work.
Babies don’t count calories on go on a diet. The body keeps what it wants to and expels the rest.
Animals eat when they are hungry. Not as per a schedule. There is no animal which gets up in the morning and starts eating. Or working. “Don’t miss breakfast ever” is a business tag line. Breakfast foods account for 40% of supermarket sales and 70% of ultra processed food intake. For a meal that should possibly be skipped.
But when humans had to be used as robots – you needed fixed timings. So we had the three meal plan developed. You wanted labour showing up well fed so they could work hard. So a breakfast industry was developed. You didn’t want people running late to work – so convenience foods were invented. Technologists learned how to fool the body sensors.
Now the sateity sensors don’t work. Resulting in a failure to self regulate. If you eat more, the body stores more. Instead of expelling more. This leads to obesity.
It is a myth that mathematics is involved. Weight put on is not the difference between input and exercise. It is a reflection of sensor failure. As a result you need to regulate externally.
There are many names given to sensor failure leading to the inability to regulate hunger and bowels. Insulin resistance and thyroid are two common names many are familiar with. Diabetes is another. We call these metabolic disorders.
Some of the most backward societies don’t have any of the health issues that afflict modern societies.
The more educated, the less knowledgeable. Because western education is designed to kill and replace Atmik knowledge.
A trained dog doesn’t know it has to run from a lion or tiger. A wild one who has never seen one has Atmik knowledge telling it to run. A goat or cow intuitively knows a tiger is trouble. It didn’t have to go to school to know what is a tiger or what it can do to a herbivore.
One of the challenges in reinventing education is to not just to restore Atmik knowledge but to strengthen it. Meditation seems to do so. But so do many other techniques. Tantra and mantra seem to help as well.
Western education has damaged the human brain. And this needs u learning.
