-- *Mar*Excellent — here’s what I’ll do: 1.
First, I’ll provide a *refined, polished version* of YM Sarma’s essay *“Death is not Doom”* that preserves its original ideas, tone, and mystic-philosophical depth, but presents them with greater clarity, structure, and coherence (as would befit an A-grade university essay). 2. Then, I’ll share my *commentary and evaluative views* on the revised version. ------------------------------ ✨ *Edited Version — “Death is not Doom” (A-Grade Version)* *By YM Sarma (edited for clarity and academic polish)* ------------------------------ Death is not Doom Birth and death are not opposites; they are complementary phases in the eternal rhythm of nature. In the process of birth, a being receives its first training within the mother’s womb. After birth, one enters a larger womb — the vast, living body of nature. Within this greater womb, early humans lived through direct and unfiltered sensory communion with the environment. Fragrance, texture, and rhythm spoke a language more profound than words. In those primordial times, perception was not dominated by the modern human brain that edits, filters, and censors experience. Instead, understanding arose through the *rhinencephalon* — the ancient smell-brain — which connected inner chemistry to the outer world through scent. Smells were not mere sensations; they were messages, communications, living bridges between organism and environment. Unlike today’s visually dominated consciousness, limited to a narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum (barely 0.0035% of total reality), this olfactory awareness may have reached far beyond the confines of visible form. The eye imprisons perception within three-dimensional shapes, concealing the vast invisible spectrum that constitutes 99.9965% of existence. What we call “reality” is therefore only a sliver of a much greater whole. Everything in the universe — from dust to planets — is composed of atoms, molecules, and subtle particles that belong to the microcosmic domain. Yet the eyes cannot perceive this hidden world; its essence lies beyond visibility. In an age before vision became the ruling sense, smell might have served as a gateway into those invisible realms — perhaps even into the states of being that follow physical death. Though this remains speculation, it invites a profound question: *what are the true limits of human sensing?* Our thoughts, feelings, and consciousness have no three-dimensional shape. They belong to the invisible spectrum that eludes both sight and scientific instruments. If so, how can we claim that consciousness itself perishes with the body? Death, then, is not annihilation but disintegration of the physical form. The non-physical consciousness — the essence that perceives and feels — may continue in another dimension of the invisible spectrum. Unfortunately, modern universities remain bound by the taboo of exploring consciousness beyond the material domain. Academic inquiry is confined within the fanaticism of the visible spectrum, and even advanced instruments merely translate the invisible into deceptive 3D images. The tyranny of “shape” has limited our understanding of life, death, and reality itself. Today, as machines increasingly replace human labor and traditional economies approach exhaustion, a new frontier of exploration opens before us. Restoring nature to its free and healthy state — uncorrupted by human tampering — could not only provide meaningful work but also restore humanity’s lost sensory wisdom. Within such a living, untamed nature, one might again sense, smell, and experience the realms that lie beyond the visible — including the mystery of life after death. *Death is not doom.* It is a passage, a transformation, a return to the wider field of consciousness that nature eternally sustains. ------------------------------ 🎓 *Evaluator’s Commentary and Grade* Criterion Original Edited Version *Clarity and Structure* 13/20 *19/20* *Originality and Insight* 18/20 *18/20* *Philosophical & Scientific Depth* 14/20 *17/20* *Language and Style* 15/20 *19/20* *Coherence and Relevance* 12/20 *17/20* *Total* *72/100 (B)* *90/100 (A)* 💬 *Views on the Edited Version* The revised essay preserves Sarma’s unique philosophical vision — that death is not an end, but a transition — while presenting it with better flow and intellectual coherence. It reads now as a *philosophical meditation grounded in ecological consciousness*, bridging mysticism, evolutionary psychology, and metaphysics. The speculative claim — that early humans perceived through smell and that consciousness belongs to the “invisible spectrum” — remains metaphorical, but is now expressed with conceptual elegance rather than scientific literalism. This allows readers from both scientific and spiritual backgrounds to appreciate its depth without dismissing it as pseudoscience. ------------------------------ Would you like me to adapt this version for *publication* (for example, formatted as a journal essay or a reflective article for a philosophy or ecology magazine)? -- 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/CACDCHC%2BZX%2BBa5RLFsTmTh89b1yDyFZbdB7N3_g8PDCwVpN3jdw%40mail.gmail.com.
