Solving challenges for a healthy survival

Solving challenges for a healthy survival
Music Therapy:-

MahaathmaaGandhi said: Truth and love Is Ahimsa .They are the only things that count.
Science is a human activity. Therefore to think that science need not have virtues and values and should be separated from ethics is a misunderstanding. Science depends upon observation, enquiry, recording data in orderly fashion, and thus after analysis and discussion (using both own experiences and the experiences of others as references) systematically arranging knowledge and then believing them. When the same procedure is done for self-enquiry and self acquaintance of total psychological movement of our own mind-brain system in action, that also is science. This process leads us to a self-surrender of ego which leads to a perception of wholeness of life .The benevolent nature of our intellect and intuition together views the situation, and guides us to harmony, justice, love and compassion.

Life, if considered as a stream of river, on one shore we have modern technological development, chaos and entropy created by erosion of values, unequal economical planning and its disasters. The other shore has peace, harmony, justice, love, compassion, surrender of ego and selfishness, and as Gandhi said truth and Ahimsa.A balance of these have to be struck by the 21st century human being. This is a great challenge humanity is taking up at present.
The “ Value,Education,peace and modern physics –USA Townsend letters for Doctors April 1992 pp 281-83 last paragraph reads thus:-“The breakthrough in mind-brain research proposed the first model of human psyche .Let this model be examined by world physicists,scientists,physiologists,psychologists,social scientists ,educators and mystics. Such a dialogue will lead to a second model of the human psyche. This is the only way to “heal the planet”and”healing ourselves” which is called the Humanist Technology. This will save humanity from annihilation”.

Arthur Schopenhauer:-All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is vehemently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident.”

When I started a process of Grand Unification of all sciences and arts and sciences and the integration of both west and east (science, and philosophies) I was made to remember the famous words of Arthur Schopenhauer because I was passing through the first two stages which he mentioned for truth. My unification is through the golden thread of music for peace and self-healing which will heal all separatisms in the long run.

Challenges:
1. Restructuring science .The outer objective field and inner subjective field (physics and psyche) is a single dynamic harmonious flow. They are interrelated, interpenetrated and inseparable. The objective sciences have to restructure themselves to take subjective sciences in its fold .Because true science is the dynamic interplay of objective as well as subjective sciences. It explores all co-ordinate systems, to borrow the words of Einstein, of our mind spectrum. It implies to investigate the unit of perception, the cartography of a unified inner space, transcending all psychological imbalances, the fields of human self-awareness called realm of consciousness and his being the subject and not the object.
2. Holistic education: This is for the cultivation of the total human being. The educating the educator introduces the psychodynamics of the mind-brain system in science faculty and transpersonal psychology in art faculty at all levels. This should lead to perception of wholeness.
3. Valuebased education:-When the external perceptual –conceptual image blurs and the internal perceptual image is activated, it gives us values. Values are not mere subjective nature of thoughts .Without cultivating values education becomes a farce.
4. Integration:-The reasoning logical thinking mode and the creative value perception mode have to be integrated in human personality for character building. We have to nourish intuition –insight mode and explain it at the intellectual level. This will lead to integration of the two hemispherical functions of brain and integration of all arts and sciences.
5.Holistic health: The subjective is verified at an objective science level .The cost of medical treatment in the Developed countries, its lack of cost-effectiveness, the new diseases developing as a challenge to modern medicine causing panic among people, the stress-related major diseases (including cardiac disease, digestive disorders and cancer)on the increase etc have given awareness to levels of quantum healing and holistic health .How to regenerate and self-fortify and self-heal our own immune system (instead of killing the outside forces as pathogens) and heal the mind –brain-body complex as a single whole (by psycho-neuro-immunology principles) has become more important now .6.Ecological problems and how to solve them is another major challenge .
It is detrimental to life on earth and is causing major health problems and effective handling of it is mandatory for existence of our nature and its life forms in a healthy co-exisence.
7.Violence is another problem we see around. There are three types of violence. The physical, mental ,and intellectual level violence .All violence and crime is an expression of the inner fragmentation and separatisms .It is the sign of suppressed psychological imbalance of the person who commit it and hence of a society.
We have a fragmentaryReductionistic society.The social sciences have several branches like economics, politics ,social laws etc.The healing sciences have several branches –western and eastern- foreign and indigenous to be integrated. Similarly there are opposing ideas of religions which has to be integrated .The inner dynamic revolution is never violent but nonviolent as Gandhi pointed out .This inner revolution which is a psychological transformation from violence to nonviolence has to happen by proper educational system innovations which requires integration ,not separatist slogans.
8.Peace: Peace is related to inner space of human beings. It is a state of mind that does not create entropy .chaos/stress to the system. For this to achieve we need an inner freedom.Shaanthi is the word used by ancient Indians for peace. The search for shanthi in oneself and thus create it in society for the prosperity of entire living things is the oldest way to know a new dimension of human consciousness and remains to be so.

All these challenges have to be met by a method which is universally applicable. That method is my music therapy. It is the golden thread on which all the pearls,corals,and jewels of sciences, arts and ideologies can be strewn in a beautiful integrated way so that physical,mental,intellectual and spiritual health can be achieved for a better future.