-- *Mar*Certainly. Below is an edited version of *"The Basic Paradigm"* by *YM Sarma*, revised for *clarity, coherence, and academic style* while preserving the original voice, tone, and message. ------------------------------ *The Basic Paradigm (Edited Version)*
*By YM Sarma* Imagine beginning your perception, understanding, and education with a fundamental paradigm: that you are not an outside observer of nature, but an inseparable part of the planet Earth. From this perspective, every system in your body becomes an extension of the natural world. Nature influences you, and you in turn influence nature. Nature is your living macro-body. Its powers, energies, and rhythms are not separate from you—they are your own. To strengthen yourself is to strengthen nature. Your character aligns with climate; your anatomy aligns with geography. You are not merely living *on* the planet—you are living *through* it. Your being is interwoven with the world around you. If this paradigm is embedded from early childhood, it forms the foundation of understanding. Education becomes a process of discovering and deepening your symbiotic relationship with nature. You learn not as an isolated individual, but as a limb of a living Earth. You begin to treat the health of nature as essential to your own health and vitality. Your internal communication systems—your hormones, nerves, and signals—integrate with the great systems of nature. Over time, your actions begin to flow as extensions of nature’s own movements. Your predictions of environmental shifts—earthquakes, storms, or seasonal changes—emerge not from external data alone, but from within, as your anatomy synchronizes with the planet. You become intuitive, not through mysticism, but through natural connectedness. In a universe with no absolute center, you become your own center—an aware, responsive node in an infinite web. This connection endows you with agency: the power to act within nature, not against it. Just as you cannot analyze while deeply feeling, some of your most important actions become unconscious, intuitive—reflexes grounded in natural alignment. In such a state, loneliness becomes impossible. You no longer perceive yourself as isolated, because your very biology affirms your connectedness to life. Today, however, we are taught to see ourselves as outsiders—observers of nature, practitioners of a “scientific temperament” that isolates rather than integrates. Temperament is hormonal, and this hormonal signal is received by every one of your seven octillion cells. When your mind believes you are separate from nature, your body follows. This self-imposed isolation spreads through your physiology, and your life becomes an unconscious struggle to detach every cell from its natural source. This illusion of separation is most visibly practiced through economics. Economic activity today is, in truth, a form of war against nature. Under the identity of the “economic man,” humans are trained to destroy, exploit, and control nature—calling it development, growth, and progress. In reality, it is the machinery of loneliness. This model is collapsing. Economics no longer guarantees livelihood; machines increasingly replace human labor, rendering individuals economically obsolete. The same system that once targeted forests, rivers, and animals now turns its destructive momentum toward humans themselves. In the name of prosperity, we have created redundancy. The time has come to reimagine our place in the world. We must choose: either reintegrate nature into the core of our existence, or face ecological and existential starvation. The first step toward recovery lies with our institutions of higher learning. Universities must lead the movement toward healing, by creating spaces of reconnection—*Free Nature Parks without human tampering*—where nature can thrive independently and humans can begin to relearn their identity as participants, not masters. Let us restore sanity by accepting that we are not outside nature, but deeply within it—and that our survival depends on embracing this truth. ------------------------------ ✅ Key Improvements: - *Clearer structure*: Paragraphs now follow a logical progression: paradigm → education → perception → disconnection → economics → call to action. - *Improved flow and transitions*: Ideas now flow more smoothly between sentences and sections. - *More concise*: Redundant phrases and overly dense passages have been trimmed or clarified. - *Stronger academic tone*: The ideas remain poetic and philosophical but are more accessible to an academic or policy-oriented reader. Would you like a *PDF version* or formatted document for presentation, publication, or sharing? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCKms%3Ddzi1ANmF9tzCqKRKcu6ZHVEe8rx1QxGX%2BrwjUOfQ%40mail.gmail.com.
