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*God Proscribed*
*By YM Sarma*
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Abstract
This essay explores the severance of modern civilization from its
primordial communion with nature, where the air itself once served as the
medium of spiritual and sensory guidance. It argues that the rise of
techno-mechanical logic and Cartesian paradigms has proscribed Theism—not
merely as a theological construct, but as a living, breathing relationship
with the natural world. The essay calls for the re-establishment of
unspoiled natural spaces as living classrooms to restore direct perception,
ecological balance, and sacred connection.
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Introduction
The basic urge of every life form is to communicate. Organisms perceive and
understand the world through hearing, smelling, seeing, touching, and
eating. They express their perceptions and understandings by
exhaling—through breath, sound, or physical action.
There was a time in evolution when the human organism relied entirely on
these sensory modes—particularly on smelling, sensing, and exhaling—to
engage with its surroundings. Every living being inhaled the exhaled
messages of others and responded in kind. The biosphere functioned almost
as a single, breathing organism, with the *troposphere* acting as a shared
communicative medium.
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The Troposphere and the Birth of Theism
This early form of exchange was not just ecological; it was *spiritual*. It
formed the first *paradigm of perception and guidance*, the seed of what
later evolved into the concept of *God*. In those times, *air* itself
served as the *flow of Theism*—a living, breathing field of knowledge,
wisdom, and presence.
Even after the emergence of the cerebral cortex—alongside the development
of reason and abstract thought—human beings continued to seek guidance
through inhaling, smelling, and sensing. Theism remained a living component
of the air. To smell correctly, to sense truthfully, was to learn and
practice the lessons of life. This was direct learning from nature.
Even today, despite the continual destruction of nature in the name of
economic development, people retreat into natural spaces seeking
psychological and spiritual healing. But paradoxically, we participate in
the destruction of the very source we rely on for that healing. In this
way, *Theism is being eliminated from the air*—and from life itself.
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Cartesian Logic and the Mechanization of Knowledge
Every subject taught in modern universities now follows the *mechanical
paradigm of René Descartes*. In these institutions, terms like *God*,
*superstition*, *prejudice*, and *folly* are often used
interchangeably—dismissed as irrelevant to serious inquiry. A field gains
academic respectability only when its principles are subjected to *mathematical
reduction* and technological validation.
Editors and scholars strive for precision according to the rules of
machines, not nature. *Techno-logic*—the logic of machines—has become the
only accepted form of reasoning. In this process, *God is proscribed* not
by law, but by epistemology.
No student today is encouraged to learn through direct sensory engagement
with nature. A student who attempts to read from the forest, from wind and
water rather than textbooks and screens, will likely fail. No university
offers a course in which *nature itself* is the teacher. *Direct perception
has been exiled.*
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The Loss of Direct Communion
The basic human urge to communicate one’s personal perceptions and
insights—gained from contact with the natural world—must now be filtered,
translated, and edited through machines. We no longer breathe the divine;
we now encode, digitize, and transmit it.
Yet *nature cannot be understood this way*, and in any case, nature itself
is *on life support*. God and Theism have been expelled not only from
institutional learning, but from the *very air*.
There is no place left in modern education to engage with nature
through *smelling,
sensing, and intuiting*. The rejection of such learning is treated with the
highest intellectual respectability, even though such rejection amounts to
a profound alienation—a collective madness.
And thanks to this madness, *nature may respond with a remedial backlash*.
The biosphere may soon act to restore its own balance—without waiting for
human permission.
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A Way Forward: Free Nature Parks
The first and most vital step every university—and society—must take is to
establish *Free Nature Parks*. These must be *untouched, unengineered, and
uncommercialized*. Let nature exist there freely, as teacher, guide, and
healer. Let students breathe unedited air and learn not from diagrams but
from *direct presence*.
Today, if someone claims they have learned something directly from nature,
the rationalist or "Mr. Atheist" will pounce—calling them delusional,
demanding technological proof. But some truths cannot be proven in digital
code. They are *breathed*, *felt*, and *lived*.
Until we allow the air once again to carry meaning, direction, and Theism,
we will remain alienated from both the world and ourselves.
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Conclusion
Modern civilization has not merely forgotten God—it has *proscribed* God.
Not in the name of reason, but in service to a limited and mechanistic form
of reason that denies the deeper ways of knowing. We have exiled nature as
a teacher, dismissed the sacred as superstition, and traded breath for
bandwidth.
Yet the wind still whispers. The earth still speaks. And Theism—true,
living Theism—awaits its return in the *unpolluted air* of undisturbed
nature.
Let us restore it—not through ideology, but through *listening*.
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*Let the air speak again. Let nature teach again. Let God be un-proscribed.*
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Author Bio
*YM Sarma* is an independent thinker, nature observer, and philosophical
essayist. At 88 years old, he continues to reflect deeply on the
intersections of ecology, spirituality, and human knowledge systems. His
writings critique the techno-mechanistic worldview and call for a return to
sacred relationship with the natural world.
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*Suggested Journals*:
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*Environmental Humanities*
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*Spiritual Ecology Journal*
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*Philosophy Today*
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*Resurgence & Ecologist*
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*Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture*
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