-- *Mar*Below is a *rewritten and edited version* of your essay, preserving your philosophical intent while improving clarity, flow, and coherence. I have kept the tone reflective and metaphysical, but tightened the language and structure. ------------------------------ *Prison*
A prison is not only a cell or a wall. It is any obstruction, restriction, or hindrance that limits our free access, interaction, and participation in nature. It is the denial of entry into the *Theosphere*—the living field of meaning, vitality, and awareness emanating from nature itself. This denial may come from rigid religious dogmas, from the Cartesian habit of reducing life to mechanisms, or from the ideological cults and political systems that confine perception and distort experience. What we call “seeing” is itself a kind of prison. Our eyes register less than a minute fraction of reality—only a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum. Even within that tiny band, vision traps us inside the illusion of fixed shapes, ignoring the dimension of Time, which holds the vast unseen remainder. Time is not merely chronological; it is the subtle, living dimension of sensing, feeling, and understanding—a doorway into the formless, dynamic nature that continually flows beneath the visible world. The true reality of nature is not a collection of objects but a mesh of processes, always changing, always interacting. No “thing” is ultimately definite because every process overlaps with countless others. In such a world, the joy of discovery does not arise from control or analysis but from immersion in free and healthy nature, untouched by human interference. The Biosphere is a collegial web of emotional, perceptual, and communicative interactions, where every organism radiates and receives influences, participating in the shared pulse of life. Nature is not external to us; it extends into our very bodies. Trillions of bacteria—tiny, coordinated life forms—live within us and help shape our emotional states. What we call self-confidence or self-esteem often reflects the vitality of the natural world we inhabit. When nature is free and flourishing, its confidence percolates into us. Encounters with wild, unmanipulated nature generate feelings of revelation and insight. These feelings become biochemical signals in our bloodstream, influencing our cells and forming the foundation of psychological confidence. Yet we continue to destroy nature in the name of economic growth. In doing so, we demoralize not only countless species but the Biosphere as a whole, draining its—and our—self-confidence. We come to fear the very natural world that constitutes our larger anatomy. At the same time, the economic system we rely on is failing: mechanization devours jobs, leaving societies facing unemployment, hunger, and the threat of a new great depression. No form of livelihood can be stable when it depends on dismantling the living systems that support us. Economics, modeled on an outdated imitation of Newtonian physics, cannot sustain life. Ecology—not economics—must become the foundation of our understanding and our way of living. To begin this shift, every university should establish a free nature reserve, a space untouched by human manipulation, as a living classroom that mirrors the principles of ecological reality. Our economic activities have triggered dangerous instabilities in nature. If we continue provoking these systems, nature will be compelled to respond with severe corrective forces. It is time to step out of our prisons and re-enter the living, dynamic Theosphere. Only by restoring nature’s freedom can we restore our own. *—YM Sarma* ------------------------------ If you'd like, I can also produce an alternate version with a more academic tone, a more poetic tone, or a shorter, punchier manifesto-style version. -- 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/CACDCHCLAqJmvH-Mm8bEFuU_6F%3D6dNEL22RB1zyVOLTKjA7jLdQ%40mail.gmail.com.
