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This is the face of author, philosopher and poet Munayem Mayenin.

This is here for the readers and visitors to get to know the ideas and creative products of Munayem Mayenin in philosophy, psychology, political science, sociology, novels, poetry, stories and all of which he tried to become in order to find the meaning of life in this cosmosian theatre of life in this infinite universe in search of a humanion and in a profession of humanics.

This is at the end of the day the beginning of a new system of thinking and ideas and a new beginning of a new civilisation that will be based on:

natural justice

purpose

meaning

rationality

morality

equality

and liberty!

Munayem Mayenin's philosophy is enshrined in the following:

People are free because they are equal and they are equal because they are free. Without equality in existence liberty can not exist, and without liberty in existence equality can not either. This is the rationale, in which, a new civilisation must be born to replace this uncivilised, ruthless and brutal system of so called civilisation; that is based on power, rooted in money, owning, winning and pride, that is expressed and exercised in the fiercest of competition and, that is run like an excellent machine, and that tries to put the mask of ration in the ugliest of irrationality and, that waters and nurtures inhumanity and bars all the avenues of human potentials to be-to be free and equal and to live and  deny to accept a state of merely staying alive.

Dehumanisation of Humanity; Volume 1

Dedication

To the memories of the trillions of people, who got killed by this “civilised” society, throughout these millennia, by the name of system, law, justice, freedom and by self inflicted wars, famines and starvation and, through inflicted illnesses and imposed criminality and, to those enlightened members of humanity, who will be inspired to raise questions as to why these things happened and as to how the humanity can get rid of this evil system that kills humanity and who are willing to take the responsibility to create a new world of natural justice, rationality, liberty, equality, morality, meaning and purpose, in a phrase, of humanity. To everybody, while you read this work, please remember the wonderful soul of Chief Seatle, who said once:

“What will happen-------When the view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires? Where will the thicket be? Gone. Where will the eagle be? Gone. And what will happen when we say good bye to the swift pony and the hunt? It will be the end of living and beginning of survival. This we know: All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand to it. Whatever we do to the web, we do it to ourselves.” (Brother Eagle Sister Sky: Susan Jeffers)

Finally, let's just read, recite and begin to believe in and dream about a world where:

“We build the meaning

A “church” for all

And a job for each

Each “man” to his work.”

T. S. Eliot

Where work is a rainbow-creation

A child to the members of the humanion

Let us envision a new time when humankind is a humanion of brothers and sisters, a race of rainbow expressions and their home is the infinite universe and the heart of their universe will be this tiny little wonderful blue planet and where all the bloods and spirits of all the bodies and minds and souls of humanity will create the best symphony of unison in this infinite avenues of life where the avenues are infinite themselves.

Thank you very much.

Life is a sparkling tiny brilliance
Shorter than a simple sentence
Live it to the full fill it to the brink
Not full with fire and fume of hatred
Not full of slimy rotten smells
But full with and blossomed in love
Sharing of joys and a sense of true humanion
 

Munayem Mayenin

DEHUMNISATION OF HUMANITY

This page gives you an idea as to the nature and scope of the work this author is undertaking.
It includes the very fundamental of this work and dedication. The total work is planned and being written in four volumes and there is a list of chapters that are in each volume.

Volume One

Dehumanisation of Humanity, Volume One, has finally reached the desk of the publisher and joined the queue to be born into the market soon, hopefully.

These are the final chapters of the volume:

1. Introduction

2. Zero Ground

3. Slavery

4. Feudal Period

5. Capitalist Period: Colonisation

6. Capitalism: Imperialism

7. Socialist Experimentation

8. Communistic Aspirations

9. Capitalism: American Monsterfly

10. Fascisomisation of Democracy

11. Globalisation of Capitalism

12. Study of the British System

13. Capitalism: The Art of Dehumanisation in the European Union

14. Capitalism: The Talking Shop United Nations

15. Sophisticated Modern Slavery

16. The Classes of Needs of Humanity

17. Open Globalised Modern Raw Forms of Slavery

18. The Socio-econo-politcs of Terrorism

19. Problems of Philosophy

20. Appendices

21. Bibliography

Volume Two

1. Politics
2. Economics
3. Sociology
4. Science
5. Arts
6. Psychology
7. Education
8. Media
9. Religion
10. Money
11. Power
12. Class
13. Ownership
14. Crime
15. Classification
16. Democracy
17. Individual and Individuals
18. Systamatisation
19. Dehumanisation
20. Values
21. Greed and Morality
22. Fallacy of Ration
23. Illegality of Law
24. Dissection of Jurisprudence
25. Corrupted Emotions
26. Corrupted Lives
27. Corrupted Values
28. Majority’s Terror
29. Minority’s Submission
30. Obstacles of Progress

Volume Three

1. Culture of Pay
2. Culture of Power
3. Culture of Illness
4. Culture of Justice
5. Culture of Money
6. Culture of Order
7. Culture of Submission
8. Massacre of Individuals
9. Massacre of Dreams
10. Massacre of Questioning
11. The Ideal Human: The Child
12. The Child Killer: The System
13. The Cheapest of Commodities
14. The Overpowering Systems
15. The Big Brothers of the Protectorate

Volume Four

1. Rationality
1. Equality
2. Liberty
3. Fairness
4. Natural Justice
5. Morality
6. Purpose
7. Diversity
8. Being
9. Individual
10. Society
11. Humankind
12. Becoming
13. Religions
14. Peoples
15. Poetry
16. Arts of the Future
17. Science of the Future
18. What
19. How
20. Why
21. When
22. By Whom
23. Where



About Dehumanisation of Humanity

This work is based on this fundamental:

People are free because they are equal and they are equal because they are free. Without equality in existence liberty can not exist, and without liberty in existence equality can not either. This is the rationale, in which a new civilisation must be born to replace this uncivilised, ruthless and brutal system of so called civilisation; that is based on power, rooted in money, owning, winning and pride, that is expressed and exercised in the fiercest of competition and, that is run like an excellent machine, and that tries to put the mask of ration in the ugliest of irrationality and, that waters and nurtures inhumanity and bars all the avenues of human potentials to be-to be free and equal and to live and deny to accept a state of merely staying alive.

Dedication

To the memories of the trillions of people who got killed by this “civilised” society, throughout these millennia, by the name of system, law, justice, freedom and by self inflicted wars, famines and starvation and, through inflicted illnesses and imposed criminality and, to those enlightened members of humanity who will be inspired to raise questions as to why these things happened and as to how the humanity can get rid of this evil system that kills humanity and who are willing to take the responsibility to create a new world of natural justice, rationality, liberty, equality, morality and purpose, in a phrase, of humanity. To everybody, while you read this work, please remember the wonderful soul of Chief Seatle, who said once:
“What will happen-------When the view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires? Where will the thicket be? Gone. Where will the eagle be? Gone. And what will happen when we say good bye to the swift pony and the hunt? It will be the end of living and beginning of survival. This we know: All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand to it. Whatever we do to the web, we do it to ourselves.” (Brother Eagle Sister Sky: Susan Jeffers)

Munayem Mayenin

The Author
London
1999

Introduction

I am writing this work because I believe, humankind must be free from lunatic madness and from living a worthless life that can be equated to a cheat as people are not living a life, rather they are staying alive. The system is, on the other hand, living with the ones who have been able to negotiate the best value for their slavery’s terms and conditions on their contracts. I am writing this work because I believe humankind and thus every single one of us have infinite potentials. By that I mean we have an imprint of the whole of the universe and the things and possibilities it holds in our being, namely, our mind and having a civilisation that supports that potentials to be released we can be a limitless exploration, an endless journey of adventure, a colourfully blissful creative explosion.

I am writing this work as I believe our dreams and vision of eternal multitude to see fairness and equality can finally be established and I believe it ought to be done. Thus I believe, it must be done and can be done and should be done and that we as a race can do it. Not with class struggle or bloody revolution or in vengenceful retribution or zealous callousness but with rationality, purpose and working together as an orchestra of humanity. We are not in a hurry. We have suffered millennia we can suffer a bit longer if necessary to avoid much more imposed killings and hatred. I do not and will not, under any circumstances or positions or times or background, subscribe or support bloodshed or hatred or vengeance.

Ever since we came into being it has been ruthless madness that surrounded us. We had never been able to materialise our dreams. Humankind’s eternal pursuit for natural justice, explored in the form of equality, to create a just society has always been featured and explored through Socrates, Plato, Aristotle to Voltaire-Rousseau, Fouerbach-Hegel, Kant- Karl Marx-Sartre. All the schools of Philosophies in the west and east we see a continuous theme of this. Hundreds of revolutions and experimental efforts had been afforded in the search of equality and justice. This eternal dream, this longing vision, this burning desire for equality and justice have always been supported and pioneered by different schools of philosophies that have been taken on by political power (by the states) and there came legislative, administrative and judicial back up, outlining the principles of equality and justice, spelling out policies and drawing on the procedures to follow. After the collapse of Marxist socialist countries and thus philosophy it is clear that that was not the way of getting justice and fairness established. But now the big question is why so far everything failed?

Marx’s efforts to analyse the capitalist society and economy to find out the answers were tremendously powerful and liberating for the world in the sense that it was he who dared the world to get ready for the big project and showed a vision to people almost like a science that it was not only possible but also achievable to actually change the world and make it fair and equal for everybody. However, throughout this discourse we will get in detail with this, suffice to sum up and say that his answers have apparently failed to sustain. That failure or missed opportunity has taken away all lights and signs of lights along with hopes and dreams of mankind and now “everything seems quiet in the western and eastern front” and this silence sounds like sonar and people who have the ability to listen to sonar cannot sleep. We are back to square one again! All is lost? It may not be as Marxism served its philosophical historic purpose and will always be part of human philosophical milestone so long as humans shall live on this planet. However, our journey must continue. For humankind is much bigger and greater than any particular school of thoughts!

I am writing this work as I feel this is the best I could do to change this evil civilisation and the irrational, immoral and lunatic system that is obstructing the progress and development of the whole of humankind. It needs to be changed into a human, moral, rational and free civilisation that is in tune with the need of humankind and that is based on these six foundation stones that essentially define and identify us as humans: rationality, morality, equality, liberty, natural justice and purpose. A civilisation is a natural system that has these five things alive and active on the planet (that is part of the greater universe) as natural as the scented air of the green meadow, as natural and inherent as the blue sky reflected on beautiful unspoiled Mediterranean sea, as natural as to say that we no longer have any need to even be aware of these things or have declarations made, signed and ratified for these foundation stones, as natural as looking at a butterfly serenading the spring flowers or the dancing spring singing Beethoven or Mozart to the mountain trying to kiss the cloudy sky.

And finally we the humankind come to be able to be united in vibrant and colourful diversity where really “thousands flowers bloom” (GOD forbid not like China! or Soviet Union!). Nothing could now destroy humankind. It’s a new civilisation on this beautiful blue planet of ours (which I call my home). It’s a new way of thinking, a new generation of languages, with a new vocabulary created to reflect the newly earned values and meanings. This is not a utopia! It is not only possible but also achievable. Look at the system we are in now. It is a mess and it is messing us up terribly badly. It is dying along and at the same time it is suffocating and killing us. It says it is trying to fix problems but as soon as it goes to fix something a new something else goes deeply broken or gets messed up. It cannot survive. It cannot sustain itself let alone to sustain the humankind.

On a personal note to explain the way this work is written. I had millions of questions as I started out life and I went to look for answers and as I continued my quest it led me to realise that my questions increased to billions. And to satisfy my curiosity I read whatever I found that was readable. My motto was to study as mad. I used tell my friends, “If GOD put me in hell and the hell fire does not burn my book I will still read there!”

In short I have tried to drink it all as much as I could or may be, that was youth, “my mad existence”! I have spent almost 40 years of my life in this and now it is time to finish this work and humbly take my leave. This is an explanation and not, in any shape or form, efforts to show how knowledgeable I am! For I gathered, just to study the subjects to a “pass” level, that are being taught at all the universities and colleges on this planet I would need several hundred human lifetimes. Then add on to it the universe, and the starts, galaxies, milky ways, black holes, nova and supernova and beyond! How tiny I feel! How humble I become! I feel like that ant, that is standing before the Himalayas and looking at himself from the top of that gigantic mountain (in his mind) and thinking how tiny, how trifling and how meaninglessly small he is, his knowledge and understanding are! So I urge you to take my word for it. I am humble in infinite quantity and feel empty and hollow inside as to the fact that how little I have managed to know! The more I try to know the more I know how little I know!

The format of this book is not like any what a university academic would follow. That is because I have not got the means, time and resources to do that. I have to work for earning some “money” to maintain my family and children and support this physical being. Having to do that I have no other way of doing this work. But I am doing it because to me this is what I am- this is where I reside and live and would like to stay. Moreover, over all these years I had gathered more that 10,000 books in my personal library with which, tragically I lost contact and cannot get back to them! Thus I have my current study, whatever much I could I try, and my fading memories, which make me cry. The other day I cried for the fact that I cannot remember anything at all about Calculus, in which I was quite good at. I wish I still could read all the things that I had been able to read. But life is like that. You do not get to perfect it but, even if you have been able to gather any wisdom at all.

This is an explanation, particularly for the academics so that they understand. I am not writing this for any academic reasons and I certainly do not wish for accolades either. If you are kind enough to read it that will be good enough reward and honour for me as a writer and a thinker, if you can call me that at all.

One other request to all the readers, please bear with me and be patient as this is the introduction of a piece of work of four volumes and, I would be forever grateful, if you could kindly hold your queries, questions, remarks and criticisms until you have finished reading the whole of the work, which I very much hope, will clarify and answer any early observations or criticisms you may want to make now.

Finally, with this writing I wish to remember my beloved father and mother who had given me a wonderful childhood to grow independently without much interference and manipulation and allowed me to grow up in deep closeness with the nature which helped me develop the way I did.

I want to say that I cannot name all the names of my teachers at the university of life, who helped me, inspired me, encouraged me, motivated me, driven me to continue the quest to raise questions and seek answers. I am forever indebted to them. These teachers are of two categories, one: my real teachers and two: all the thinkers who helped me understand the world better. I would just like to show my deep indebtedness and regards by mentioning a few names: Professor Abdul Aziz (Registrar, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh), Professor Mustafa Ali (Bangladesh), Professor Shafi Uddin Ahmed (Bangladesh), Professor Gulam Robbani (Bangladesh). I am grateful to all the thinkers whose wonderful world of thinking and thoughts helped me continue my quest, which has not yet ended and will continue with me so long as I shall live.

I would like to say I am enormously grateful and indebted to my life partner, wife, friend and mother of my two wonderful children (Ohie and Saahia), all of whom keep me wondering about the fortune that I have been blessed with them in this life. This tiny brilliance that I call life is wonderful and precious mostly because of them.
Thank you very much and I hope you will have a good reading.
The Author

Zero Ground

The most important of all tasks, before us, is to begin our study with the assumption that we will, at every way and perspective possible, try our utmost to make best use of our faculty of ration so that whatever we see and show are to be the best of Humanity possible. Because we take the view that the best that we as human being could claim to have is our ability to think and think rationally as we take the premise that what differ us from being simply animal is this rationality. All animals are genetically and physiologically capable of feeling emotions to a varying degree but most, except Humankind, lack the quality of ration. Thence they act out their lives and live it following their emotions. A scared dog would essentially bark or run away where a scared human will react differently. We have not only emotions but have their varied forms and coupled with multiple complexities and not only are we able to recognise them but also control them to a certain degree. How do we manage to do that is an essential question. We do that by the utilisation of ration. That’s why we say that we feel with the heart but run our life not by following the heart or its responses rather we rationalise and make decisions and then follow or execute them. That is what we propose to take with this journey of analysing ourselves and the systems, in which, we find ourselves imprisoned in. However, our overwhelming difficulties are that the system we have developed does not allow us to be able to afford to become capable of using this faculty and, thus create a series of problems and difficulties one after another as there are other instruments which influence everything we do and we end up not only losing ourselves and control but also the ability to even see or understand it.
So, here we stand, at a point of society or civilisation, that claims to be civilised which fosters, nurtures, upholds and advances the best of humanity, namely justice and fairness, equality, human rights, liberty and most of all the rule of law or democracy and, still we see or feel or have majority of our fellow members of this civilisation disagreeing that we have any of these things that the system claims that we have. To a very basic level we are hungry, we are poor, we are uneducated, we are homeless, we are jobless and we do not have access to any kind of Medicare. Moreover, we even can not recognise that we have been made personless.

we lack so many important and invaluable items that without them we can hardly be called human being at all: things like being able to develop the capability to use rationality, act with morality, live with equality while enjoying liberty, live and interact with a purpose. In a situation like that ours is the most hard of all jobs to endeavour and try to analyse the whole of the so called civilisation and try to find out why things are forced the way they are, instead of supporting the progress and enhancement of humankind, is it putting up all sorts of possible and impossible barriers and obstacles for our at all being or progressing.

In order to avoid any dispute or controversy we have to decide the beginning point of our study and take a point to start, namely to point out the beginning of humankind. We would like to take that point as zero grounding where things began. We must accept this that things do not begin from one they begin from a state of nothingness or a point of no numerical or mathematical significance and then onwards as progress is made the number line continues to count. We do not think that until humankind reached Slavery they had actually started any progress with regards to their starting or zero point starting up.

If we then take the journey with that group of our predecessors out on this planet trying to live a life how would we find them? We must warn our readers that we must leave all the so called clothing of civilisation as well as the filthy prejudices we have been made to digest, such as, primitive people, uneducated bunch, barbarians, uncivilised, lacking of modern way of thinking and being unable to recognise the sign of Microsoft or unable to eat McDonnell’s Fries or drink Coke. It is paramount for us to be able to understand how those people made their way into life and left their marks on this beautiful planet and since then how continuously we continued to destroy and corrupt this planet and along with it we brought about all sorts of evil for our kind.

That Ideal Humanity holds light for us and would show us the way in which we should have been living. Let us begin our investigation of their way of living. Those people are the pioneer of humanity and they were on a planet that was uninhabited and they treated it as a gift to them so that they could live on it and, they lived on it, leaving it if not better but not worse to their children. They did not buy the planet, they did not fight any war to occupy it. They merely found themselves on the planet and we could only take the view that they treated it as well as their own life to be a gift from a superior being and they respected both their own lives and the planet they lived on. There were no homeless persons, there were no jobless persons, there were no persons without Medicare, they did not have rich nor did they have any poor. They had no one who was mentally ill or psychopathically oriented. They had no crime nor had they have any criminals. They would not kill anything the way we do. They lived as part of the planet as an organic part of it. They lived as friends of the nature in harmony. They lived like fishes live in water without disturbing it, they lived like snakes in the jungle, they lived like the bees or butterflies without disturbing the flowers. They lived like the mole under the ground. They lived like the eagles of the sky. These animal live in the nature as part of it without challenging it or tampering with it or manipulating it or destroying it. They needn’t have to do any of this as they believed that they were part of the planet and without harmony to it there can not be peace in one self. This is like this infant who has had an argument with his mother and who, no matter who says what, can not find mental peace, even if he pretends that he is peaceful. That is where we had left our mental harmony, our peace and emotional well being.

Our predecessors never lived in irrationality. They had the highest most degree of liberty and they held the uttermost equality on this planet. They were moral in their way of living. And when we say moral we do not mean a puritan morality. They had a purpose in living and they did not lose “life in living”. That was where we had Humanity. That society was the one what was there to enable humanity to be. Their society enabled them, enhance them and they lived to the full and they left the world better than they had received it. But it is us who destroyed all this. This is not imagination what we are talking about. That early well being that we had acquired is still helping us to hang on and not becoming all insane yet. All prisoners would go mad had they have no earlier life of liberty to a certain degree and had they have no hope of being able to come back to something better than the prison.

That society they had no government or state the way we know it, nor did they have any such thing as law the way we know it or view it. They did not have police, courts, security services or royalty: yet they managed to hold onto the best of humanity that we only could dream of having.

How was it possible? All that was possible because they had natural justice which now we try to enshrine through falls declaration of rights or of declarations of conventions convened so that we can feel good about ourselves as doing something. My father used to say he who needs to swear is definitely lying. They were equal and thus they had liberty. Human can live few minutes without air and with human dignity but he can not live a second without liberty maintaining his human dignity and unless they are equal to each other they can not enjoy liberty at all. Thus those people had these two essential elements that kept humanity to be. They had some other paramount items of humanity: they had rationality as they are the only humans who were able to exercise ration to the fullest in everything they did and thus whatever rational they did they did it morally. Moral they were and thus they had a purpose. With all these they had the system and apparatus to support their humanity and to enhance, improve and maintain continued progression of it.

As soon that state of affairs were changed we started to degrade ourselves and still try our best to maintain the good qualities of humanity and continue failing it, bending it, manipulating it, tampering it, destroying it and finally we have been successful in dehumanising the whole of humanity and here we stand with a dehumanised humanity that can not even be. The whole system of civilisation is now standing like an all round death wall of humanity that keeps killing us every second of our life until we physically die. In effect, in this civilisation we only are allowed to a certain limited degree to be able to live like human being, which is the early childhood. As we cross the threshold of that tiny and brief childhood the system starts manipulating us and turn us into dehumanised biological entities that not only are we unable to develop and be as human beings but also become incapable of seeing it.

This zero ground of humanity can be seen in every country of the world. In a generalised sense the East of the planet maintained that zero point longer than the west. Even still now at the stage of overwhelming globalised capitalist world civilisation still some cultures in the East and some tribal nations in the west, which the civilisation tried and is trying its best to murder, still show signs of efforts of maintaining those values.
Still now in countries and communities where capitalism entered late with its overwhelming power of manipulation and destruction we see better humanity than in the advanced capitalist societies. That is because humanity still had not yet been dehumanised.

@Munayem Mayenin, London, 2002

 

Sensedia

Munayem Mayenin

All we have as means to create a sense of what we are and what is outside of us in which we find ourselves operating in is our senses: sight, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. There is no other way we could know what we are and what the whole of outside that operates without our being there or not being there. Therefore, we must understand these five antennas that allow us the means to try and acquire knowledge of the outer world as well as of ourselves that in turn helps us live our life.

The question of subjectivity and objectivity, rationality and emotionality does not arise until we have understood this pentagon of our own self-awareness university. The very objectivity that is so much valued and prized by the so-called scientific community could not arise unless subjective judgments and experiences create this sense of objectivity and validify its existence. How do we know that an objective world exists without us subjectively experiencing it and then testifying en mass that in all our subjective experiences we found that this outer world that exists outside of us, and where we find ourselves living in; does exist without our accreditation or validation. Proof and evidence come later on at the labs but before we could locate a lab we have a hypothesis to prove either way that comes from our subjective experiences. Moreover, as individual subjectivity goes, we have five senses to almost create a subjective objectivity within our own subjective experiences by cross-referencing our different senses and their responses. So when we cannot see something, we try to smell it or hear it or touch it. So the birth of the very objectivity begins with our subjectivity and therefore, there is no objectivity that could be tested or validated unless there are individuals who could subjectively experience it and then validate it.

Whatever people might bring in as rationality, cognition, memories or awareness or anything like this at the very foundation we start with our senses and use them while adding on other devices to them to expand their ability to experience the reality: namely our creativity, empathy and imagination. Without senses there are no experiences and without experiences there cannot be any knowledge, neither of self nor the other, the outside. Let us call ourselves as self and the whole outside is the reality. We are part of the reality yet within that reality while being part of it we form our own unique mini reality. As we begin to respond and ‘prospond’ in response and ‘prosponse’ to our sensual experiences or initiated sensual ‘prosponsive’ experiences we continue to become and thereby our reality changes interacting with the greater reality consequently changing that too or at least influencing it to some smaller or greater extent.

Our knowledge of ourselves must begin with the fact that we acknowledge that there is an outer reality that exists beyond us. This we gather using our senses: we see it, we hear it, we smell it, we touch it, we even taste it and through these sense-employing we gather experiences from which we fathom out information, form knowledge that offers us wisdom with which we enhance our being and living.

Before we venture any further, let us just briefly bring in the feeling here that is viewed and sensed as an inferior sibling of thinking. These two words bear the two faculties of humanity, namely, emotionality and rationality. If we see our senses as rain then feeling is the lake-surface where the rain falls and there we see the response of that rain falling, the dance of water drops and the waves, the music, the symphony and the whole landscape of this rain-occurrence, a state of wounding taking place causing pains and joys to bloom. This whole is our emotionality of the rain of senses and that becomes our experiences.

What then would we call our rationality? Our rationality would be the germination of the whole experience through analysis and deriving out of a file of the whole experience in terms of images, information, data etc that allows us to put it into memories in an ordered manner so that they can be recalled easily. However, rationality is not just the process of putting the experiences into a file for ordered filling up of memories; it tries to derive knowledge out of the experiences, wisdom out them so that we can use them in our daily life without having to go through the process of recollecting the whole memories. For example, if we get burn by fire we would experience it through our senses and there would be emotional responses to them that form memories of them. Rational mind would gather the memories and fold them into manageable system but derive knowledge and wisdom out of it. So next time with fire we are going to be careful because we have the knowledge and wisdom now that tells us to be careful, as we know the consequences. In doing that we are simply using the knowledge and wisdom out of the emotional experiences of the burning and not remembering the whole series of experiences.

However, one point must be touched here before we venture out further with this discourse, in this market manipulated system of science where evidence seeking takes over the search of truth it is always emphasised that we value the thinking mind to understand things. Thinking, rationality and so-called scientific mind is highly portrayed yet what this does is continuously dehumanises us so that we could be made machine-like beings capable of producing information or presentation that could be sold or used to sell. What we are missing here is that we may need to understand empirically by thinking and analysing, yet the very understanding is a process purely of rational sense-making yet without emotional faculty’s contributions no human mind can function properly at all. We might be able to pretend that we do not value emotion but emotional input must be taken into account because without emostanding something our understanding is half and surely unable to offer a full comprehensive knowledge of something. Therefore, when we say we understand we must mean that we understand and emostand, which offer a complete sense or idea of whatever we are trying to understand.

Therefore, emotionality and rationality are not opposing elements or traits of our mind they are complementary to each other one cannot function without the other. These two acts as two sages giving us two different means to access subjective experiences and derive an understanding of the whole. An emotional response is not a bad response but a partial response and a rational one is impossible unless emotional has already taken place. Therefore, the age-old debate of being rational and emotional now must be clearly taken on and dealt with here.

Let us take this example: this two men knocked on my door, apparently from some church discipline; one being a young man zealous with God’s and Christ’s message, other being quite older than him, carrying the message of God’s and Christ’s too, yet having talked to both of them for few hours, I admired the elderly father without whom we could not have continued talk for five minutes because of the young man’s arrogant outburst regarding the fact of who was going to hell or this or that. There was discussion going on: I was saying things and the elderly person was listening and responding, the young man was too. There were emotional and intellectual states of minds at play there and both were involved as to how we were engaging in the discussion that allowed us to continue that few hours of discourse. Having finished the conversation on good terms, on a very fond tone, not with the young chap but the elderly person, I offered him thanks and gratitude for sharing his wisdom with me and we both separated on the following: he said, ‘ I am astounded and moved by your sincere and fundamental faith and conviction in the goodness of humanity, I wish I could share that, I am afraid, my faith in humanity is not that strong.’ And I said, I could not share the gloomy sinful human beings and their lost souls in need of rescuing.’ Now, here everything was said and answered back and listened to both rationally and emotionally while between the elderly person and myself while the young chap simply decided to respond using his emotion alone. The elderly person might have taken the route of pure rational discourse or an emotional one, however, because of his age and maturity he has taken a blended view in mirroring my attitude and there was this sense of reaching out to see the other point of view. One could say there cannot be a rational discourse with a church leader or a mosque or synagogue or any other faith, but that is not what we are discussing here.

When we say we are rational beings it does not and should not mean that we ought to ignore our emotional self and when we say we are emotional beings we must not mean that we ought to ignore our rational self. Rationality in us is the means to locate ourselves in the outside whole and emotionality is the means whereby we locate the outside in ourselves. And only by doing this continuous translation, transfiguration and translocation of getting the outside in and inside out we cannot function or develop as fully functioning, fully being human beings. Moreover, emotionality does that by creating subjectivity and rationality does that by creating objectivity. So if we take the analogy of a half sphere being our emotionality and subjectivity then the other half sphere is our rationality and objectivity. One cannot exist properly and stay in health without the other being in health.

Therefore, we come to the age of metaphor of head and heart: our head stands for our rationality and heart for emotionality in this and they cannot, should not and must not me taken as opposing entities, which is what they are taken to be today. They are as we have shown complementary and necessary means and mechanism for us to be humans. Being alive means we are using both of these two faculties together and to serve as one albeit two in one or one in two. They must serve us almost like a marriage whereby we have two people working together as one or one in two. One person cannot have a marriage. There won’t be a human being without both in functioning order and unison. If we are using only one, does not matter which one, we are functioning as a half and therefore we cannot be fully being, we cannot be happy and content, and here comes the nasty bit, because we are living being, when we cannot properly be, when we cannot become freely and when we fail to locate ourselves within us and relate ourselves to the outer world or reality finding that unison, that peace we begin to break away into myriad of illnesses both physical and mental.

Let us now get into further elaboration of the senses and how they are our Pentagon University of Self Awareness. Ironically, self awareness starts not from being aware of oneself but the fact that an entity, self, realises that it is aware of the outside world that is not within it and by virtue of that it became aware of itself and then begins a process of finding out more about itself as it does so of the outside reality. Therefore, self-awareness is a process in which one becomes aware of oneself and the outside reality and a living relationship of equal nature begins to be formed that provides us with the life-source, the goodness to maintain our health and well being. Hence self-awareness cannot be complete unless the outer reality is being known and been taken into the self-awareness.

So here we have this Pentagon: I, is the agency that became aware of itself because it realises that there is an outside reality that exists outside its being and control. How does that realisation occur? It occurs because this agency, I, opens its eyes and sees a whole world outside. It sees things, shapes, colours, sizes and so on. It then closes its eyes and does not see anything but realises that it could hear a lot of the sounds germinated from the outside reality. It then touches and can feel a lot of things that it did not see or hear. It smells and smells a lot of the things that it did not see, hear or feel. It tries and tastes things and realises that in its taste the outside existed. It tries by stopping to sense all these things that form the outside and then tries again to see whether the outside is still out there and sees that it is still there. So in its own way it employed all the senses to create a sensedia of the outer reality and is subjective but because it has employed all the five senses this individual subjectivity has been validated by all the senses or by more than one and therefore, it became almost a subjective objectivity. Now this person is Dave and he now needs validation of his subjectivity and he goes and asks other James, Ahmed, Alende, Joan and Javan and they confirm the same subjective objectivity that then established before all these individuals that the outside is an objective reality even if they are not feeling it by their own five senses.

Here we might hear the screaming of our lab-fav scientific community saying: this is not objectivity at all! We need lab-managed objectivity. We need to see whether I could reproduce something, replicate something, make figures, charts, and diagrams, take photos, video record things and then we could say this is objective! Objectivity does not need a lab, the whole world is a lab, living is a lab and people are the scientists. Someone puts too much salt in his or her food and it became bitter! They subjectively feel it, but want to be sure so they ask someone else to validify the bitterness and the second person goes, tastes it and screams out of bitterness! That is objectivity gained through subjective experiences, gained through individual senses and then subjectivity went to acquire further validity from further subjectivity and by means of doing that acquire subjective objectivity.

The scientist who spent all his life studying this element, say, x and failed to know that it is poisonous only to human taste. Finally, he decided to put it to taste and he dies! How else could he have gained this knowledge without tasting it! Poisonous gases can harm humans if they smell and inhale them! Our problem is not a problem of science but a problem of market. The market manipulation makes everyone a buyer and seller and these two groups of people are in a deathly combative relationship of not trusting the other, they live on the corrosive relationship of cynicism and therefore, they believe and import all the negative characteristics one could think of a human being! That’s why when someone says something and it taken as a lie or a fraud attempt. Therefore, it has to be proved to be not a lie! I say, I am Munayem Mayenin, the market does not believe me! It wants me to provide the passport, then driving license, then it asks me for the paper part of the license, then asks for bank cards, credit cards, cheque book, photo id, council tax bills, telephone bills. Having shown all this it still wants me to offer more proof, national id card, for instance, finger prints, ear prints, iris scan and God knows what else! So how on earth are we going to win over this cynicism! That’s why whenever someone says something we almost like machines say out loud: that’s not possible, that’s impossible, what is the evidence! When someone says she has seen a ghost outside Covent Garden tube on a Sunday night we just tell her off for making something up or if someone says he could see three pigeons forming and carrying a live triangle as they move on the ground and then they fly out into the air carrying the triangle with them that continued expanding we are going to call them mad! But the question ought to be why do we have to?

Most important fact in our failed understanding of human mind is again related to the market! Followed by the rapid and impossible pace of industrial revolution mental illness became an impossible phenomenon to manage and because of the so-called meritocracy replacing aristocracy the market needed some form of classification tools! There came the psychiatry, psychoanalysis, the pills, the counselling, this and that therapies and god knows what else and what else not so that the market could just deal with the casualties, it has created as by products of its absolute nightmarish greed for materialistic consumption and profits, with treatment: pills, counselling, therapies and psychoanalysis!

All of that have got the map of human mind all twisted and tangled up and in the process they have been tearing it apart! Human mind is not a simpleton’s machine, it is not a computer, even if this computer is developed few billion times it would still be no where near good enough to compete with a human mind! Further to this absolute nightmare, neurology and medical science went about establishing that human mind is a by product of brain functions and nothing more than that! 

And most arrogant of all claims so far made, made by medical science that it can fix anything and everything, which is the biggest lie ever told in human history! Why are we saying that? Medicine is nothing but the management of pain and supporting the human body to heal itself. There is hardly anything else medicine can do!  

Yet medicine continues to claim that it has reached this pinnacle of science! In fact, this so-called evidence-based practise has become the death nail to all science! Science is not an evidence collector, science is a state of mind; science is a direction towards a darkness where scientist’s mind tells him, might be hiding the truth. He guesses (academic name for it would be hypothesis) and goes into the darkness and tries the guess out, often times it does not work, he comes back, tears his hair and rework the rhythm and metre of his hypothesis and tries again. A good scientist is not a graphologist, a note taker or someone who spends a lot of time drawing diagram! A good scientist who thinks as a philosopher and a good scientist is the last thing the market wants! That is why our universities are now forced to close down Chemistry and Physics Departments while the MBA programmes or a lot of other departments that produces ‘skilled’ people capable of using the tools of the trade are over subscribed.

Anyhow, on top of that we have got this behaviourist rubbish in the name of psychology that is further drowning us into the abyss of doom! Human mind is a miraculous entity that is capable of infinite potential of development and the mind that we claim to know is nothing but the tip of the iceberg! The whole mind is as deep as the brain that continues to offer challenges to neurology. Human mind is a wholeness connected to this infinite universe and its power mechanism and therefore, what we only are aware of is not all that is our mind and definitely that is not all our mind is capable of dealing with.  

We have our five senses and we are using them to create our aware understanding of things, ourselves and the world but the whole mind is connected to this living world and it is responding to that too and we ought to be open to receive that wisdom too! We ought to be able to respond to that as well. Intuition is not an unscientific thing at all. Intuition is the response or prosponse our mind does with that deeper universe to which and to whose power belt it is connected to and works within its seasons and weather that we do not yet have the understanding, knowledge and most importantly, the technology to understand. Further to that we do not have the philosophical, psychological, political, social, cultural and spiritual frameworks. 

This part of our mind is unconscious or subconscious but it is part and parcel of our mind but it is not in our apparent awareness but we are in its awareness and we ought to be more aware of that expanse of our mind! Human mind is a mind-boggling entity and it is not a by-product of our brain or its neurons! In fact, the human body is where the mind is housed and therefore, if the house is influenced or affected mind would essentially get impacted and affected by it or even manipulated by it (as in by medicine or drugs) but that does not make mind a body thing! 

Let us elaborate a little more about the power to which our mind is connected to: this whole universe is full of energy of many kinds: gravitational forces, rays, lights, magnetism, electricity, electromagnetism and more. Yet, all these powers are deriving out of the objects world or from their motional impact. But all these powers are generated from somewhere, the big bang may be, but the question must go further than big bang! What power fuelled or ‘paid’ for the big bang! Until the big bang there could not have been objects and could not have been these powers that we found after the big bang. If powers stay eternally the same and could not be destroyed but transformed into some other powers then these powers must come from some bigger power source. The only bigger power source is the infinite darkness that covers the universe! That was and is the mother of all powers and that is still powering the whole universe. And our mind is connected to that power field as well as all other powers that we know of. All these feeds into the mind and that is how intuition works. Intuition is the bigger science that is held by human mind that our so-called science could understand! We do not understand our own intuition other than saying; it is our gut feeling or a sense coming from the sixth sense! 

We know a lot of the things that we do not know how we came to know about them! In fact there are a great many things we know that seems to be apparently impossible yet we know them! Some people do and science call them liars!  

If a train is coming on a train line few miles down the line one could feel its vibration on the line and it gets stronger and stronger and eventually even the sounds begin to be audible! If one could feel that vibrations and says, I know a train is coming (without knowing about the train’s time table) in about five minutes are we going to call them mad or liar! But we would and we do! 

Now, if someone comes to us and says: I know my son is coming home at 2 on the train that come at 2 and we would ask her as to how she came to know that and she would say that she just got a sense or feeling or intuition that told her that her son was coming! What are we going to brand this woman! Mad! That is what we are going to call her! 

But is it possible that a mother could gain insight of that train, of her son and the rest by legitimate means only that we do not know how to look at them or understand them! That the boy has a smell, the boy has a shape, the boy has a heart that beats and the boy’s body produces a lot of other signals and power fields, bio-electro-magnetic or otherwise and they travel through space in a way that we could not yet fathom out and the mother’s mind could decipher them because of the fact that anything that boy’s living body could produce has grew out of her and she would be and is capable of receiving them, deciphering them and responding to them without being aware of this fact that she could! How about that then! How about that! We do not give enough credit to a human mind! In a aware level we do that all the time, we could say by touch who is touching us (if we know that person), we could do that by smell, we could do that by sound too! Why should we not be able to that with vibrations or waves coming from afar! Essentially, human body is a biological radio too! Because the heart is continuously beating and therefore giving out biologically produce radio signals out that are waves. Our bloods are rushing about and they are sending out sound and other waves too. Our brains with all its wonderful neurons and the busy nervous systems continuously emitting signals and so on and so forth! Why do we take the view that we, both our body and mind, are in capable of deciphering and understanding them!  

Take a few examples of some of the thing we hear and just brush aside as some rubbish! 

Someone got up in the morning and said: we are going to get our passport delivered by a neighbour this morning and he was looked at as though he had gone freshly mad! Half an hour later the neighbour came in with the passport. The postman apparently delivered it at the wrong address! How could he know about that! How could he know! 

This man says to his wife: today we are going to get a letter from somewhere that says this and that letter came!

We are going to dismiss all of this by saying a whole lot of rubbish simply because we want the whole infinite universe to fall in and fit in our narrow little view and box and if it does not, which it won’t, we say a whole lot of rubbish. 

It is almost time, science is taken out of the vice hold of the market and let it be science again. It is time that we abandon that psychotherapy’s dark chair, the filthy space of behaviourism and begin again. Psychology must stop apologising and must stop acting like a dog producing test, scores, assessment techniques and tools for the market, provide therapies and counselling modules so that the market could deal with the people and their minds that it has broken apart, shattered, destroyed and abandoned! 

Human mind is not a market-manipulated toy. It is an abounding miracle and its capabilities are infinitely complex and its potential to understand and emostand is beyond simpleton’s medical science that needs to come clean and stop pretending that it could deliver miracles and magic when it cannot do anything but tend to pain and offer its many faceted bleeding and wounds some nursing. No matter however much money is put into it, it cannot deliver miracles or magic. Magic is and continues to be the human body, mind and soul, that is capable of astounding magic and monumental miracles and medical science must stop the pretence of being the pseudo-god! For it is none of that and it can never be. Most horrible fact about this arrogance is the pretence that we have reached the pinnacle of scientific and technological achievements! The truth is that in terms of human development and progress in this infinite sphere and scheme of things of this ever expanding universe humanity is just a baby learning to crawl! The whole of the future of this humanity has not yet begun! For humanity has to grow to be a toddler, an infant, a junior, a young man/woman, a human being and there would come full humanhood! That is probably when we would reach out beyond our Milky Way Galaxy! And these people are happy with Germany and Botswana!! So what are we going to do with this arrogance? We are going to pick it up like a rubbish-sack and bury it down the core of the earth or somewhere deeper than that! 

Most importantly, humanity is waiting for another Einstein to offer us a new Physics, not Newtonian Mechanics nor Einsteinian Quantum Physics but Duantum Physics that deals not with lights but darkness: the mother of all power, all energy. Lights can only take us to a point because it is; after all, finite in quantities since only burning stars are its source, darkness, on the other hand, is covering the infinite universe. Think of how our mind is related to darkness. As soon as we close our eyes all we feel-see is a dark state as though by closing our physical eyes our mind goes back in the oceanic plateau of darkness sunk in it like a sage and connected to this infinite power source and, therefore, we need to understand how darkness works so that we could tell how it works with our mind! 

People who act as though they have got the telemagic of humanity must now be challenged and defeated and with them their creator, the market that makes us feel it has brought us to this zenith of all! We have not even begun our walk to cross the valley yet to initiate the climb of the mountain! And in this process we must ensure that we have acquired the liberty for science from the vice hold of this market so that once again it could lead our quest of knowledge and wisdom and make it stop working as a lap dog of the market and this will free us from this slave-like poverty that makes us scream: oh! This is impossible! This is absolutely impossible! This can’t be! There is no evidence for it! It has never been heard of before! This is absurd!  

And instead we are going to say: oh! Yes, tell, me, how does this work? Wow! Fascinating! I did not know this could be possible! If we were like this to Newton or to Einstein or other great people this world and we, the whole human race would still be living in dark ages! In all ages there were these people all screaming out: this is not possible, that is not possible, all that were impossible to them became possible. Now we all are screaming: in our eyes, anything and everything now shares the domain of impossible because we do not have any other word to think but what the system and the market tells us to think and there we are: in a state of impossible!  

We must break free into this all possible state that will take us somewhere that so far we have never been: liberty of being fully human with all that makes us a miracle, a magic in continual unfolding. Being human is the most impossible state that makes all possible and we better learn to understand and emostand this being human and we would know how to sing out this miracle and dance out this magic through our living this monumental experience of a human life! 

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