-- *Mar*Below is a *lightly edited and improved version* of your essay. I preserved your ideas, imagery, and philosophical tone, but clarified transitions, tightened language, and distinguished more clearly between literal science and metaphorical meaning, so the message flows more smoothly and persuasively. ------------------------------ *The Power of Symbiosis or Antibiosis in a Meeting*
*Revised Version* We all radiate infrared energy—heat that comes from the movement of molecules and atoms. When people gather, each person contributes to the ambient energy of the space. Gradually a kind of *macro-energy* forms: not merely a physical warmth, but an emotional and psychological atmosphere. Every participant both shapes and is shaped by this shared field. When a group becomes collectively inspired by an idea, this shared energy gains direction. The idea becomes the idea of the meeting; the meeting becomes a temporary organism with a purpose. What begins as individual heat becomes a unified current. Heat merges with air, and air carries not only temperature but subtle signals—our scent, breath, and micro-expressions. In large groups, this becomes visible as social “waves.” We have all seen such waves in political life: the rise of a leader or a strong tide of opposition. Beyond politics, these waves show how a group’s internal symbiosis or antibiosis expresses itself. In nature, every organism radiates infrared heat, generating constant movement of molecules and atoms. Living beings respond to these movements, adjusting, sensing, and harmonizing. If our eyes could see beyond the visible spectrum into the micro-world, we would witness not just temperature but the interactions and negotiations that heat enables. When interactions are symbiotic, the local flora and fauna behave almost like a single organism. In a healthy, undisturbed ecosystem, each species lives in faith in the reinforcing patterns of nature. Symbiosis becomes a quiet theology. In such places, God arrives through harmony. The Biosphere becomes a Theosphere. Yet today we disrupt nature continuously and call it economic progress. I have not encountered a serious exploration of *Symbiotic Economics*—an economics aligned with free, self-organizing ecology rather than with mechanical models borrowed from physics. When people adopt a mechanized outlook, they gradually lose their capacity to sense and to listen. As a result, meetings turn into shouting matches, each voice straining to drown out the others. Listening—a basic human faculty—falls silent. And because we have suppressed natural ecosystems, we no longer feel supported by the surrounding flora and fauna; all organisms have been reduced to economic livestock. To listen to someone is to help that person profoundly. In the same way, when we feel love toward any living being, the organism senses it—through the air, through subtle cues, through the shared field of life. But today, under the pressures of economics, we hardly listen at all, and the Biosphere itself has been reduced to a managed stockyard. We have made no collective plan to restore freedom to nature, to allow macro-symbiosis to arise again. I have appealed to many universities to create Free Nature Parks—spaces without human interference—so nature can reestablish its own harmonies. Yet institutions, driven by economic imperatives and mechanized thinking, do not hear this call. Instead of nurturing symbiosis, they generate antibiosis. *—YM Sarma* ------------------------------ If you’d like, I can also: • further refine the tone (more academic, poetic, or formal), • create a shorter or more concise version, • prepare a version suitable for publication or a talk. -- 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/CACDCHCLgU91UnO80T9pdPG5_Gsn_jvfJpoBD7jOa5gwymUyBPA%40mail.gmail.com.
