Anatomy of mans realities- - some metaphysical facts simplified Man, at every given age in history thought high and

proud about his knowledge about the external world . . .always higher up in the ladder than his predecessors. Same is the case with our age too- we are extremely proud of our mastery over our environment and our deep reach into the secrets of nature. But the imbalance between our knowledge about the external world and the knowledge about the seeker himself is glaring. We are far behind in our knowledge about matters of who we are, and why our realities are the way they are! It will be quite interesting to have a bit serious look at our day to day realities, especially our collective realities of the world as it appear in our print and electronic media. We can check why and how the this world depicted by the media the way they are. . its genre, usual myths around it, and how absolute is it and can everyone take our it as granted as a common for all collective reality. Hope our age is intellectually quite matured to have some decent thoughts on the subject.

Some fundamental classification of realities We here are concerned only about the now and here realities of our day to day world, not the absolute reality concerning theme and concept of life and existence. The former is what takes place in front of our eyes, the closest to us in time and space. Rain is a reality when it wets you. It is with you now in time and space, hence its is very real to you. Heat of sun upon sea water, formation of cloud etc. are also realities, but not as real as the rain that wets you now. It is more distant in time and space. The absolute realm of reality is the farthest in time and space for man, so it is the most un-real. So instead of calling it another kind of absolute reality, let us classify it as cause rather than reality. This distinction between cause and reality would end some confusion for the mind. Before our knowledge advancement man did not know the secret cause behind rains, but now the cause has been become a reality. Likewise, many of our root causes in the absolute reality realm is becoming part of our reality realm as we advance our knowledge. Public reality and private reality The here and now class of reality again can be divided into two categories: public reality and private reality. Till an experience is shared with one or more persons, it can be called a private reality. The reality of clouds behind rain was once a private reality in the mind of a single person, as an idea, but when he could demonstrate it to the world rationally, it has become a public reality, though some distance away in time and space from the reality of rain. When the private theory of rain has appealed to the reason of one and all, it has become a public reality.

Many a times, certain kind of private realities never ever stand demonstrable to the other person as an object of the sense organs - - -love and pain, or an intense spiritual ecstasy for example are very real and close in time and space, but one can only experience it very subjectively within. But for the ones who have had similar experiences themselves, and upon sharing such experiences also become reality. When two individuals are caught up in the passion of love , the intensity and reality of it can be experienced by them only at those moments of ecstasy. Both partners express their deep most, never ever expressed aspects of life, create special realities and add-up such newly found realities to their respective selves. In the unique act, both become new individuals. Hence, upon break-up in love, men and women get their entities lost, at least for a period of time! When a sizeable majority agree upon the reality of such human experiences, it gains the status of a public reality. Primary realities and secondary realities This classification would consist both aspects of the fundamental divide - -here and now realities and the remote what is located in the obscurity of time and space, in the realm of ultimate causes. Most of the men are tied-up with the here and now: it is primary for them. But for a minority few, causes are more primary than the resultant now. For them the remote realities are primary and the here and now, what is close to them in time and space is secondary. Sages of all kind and the spiritually oriented general public belongs to this category. Meditation is a technique that helps one to ward off, at least for the time being, the spell of the reality of here and now and make the realm beyond here and now, the world, a part of their daily reality. It is an attempt to make a different canvas of the world to place one in the course of life and to offer it a deeper dimension. Mind, our sole and exclusive organ of knowing both kinds of realities Like ones nose or eyes, mind would be better understood if we look at it as another organ . . .with its limited range of reach. Eyes can see only limited distance in the world, and ear and nose too gives us data it captures within its limited range. Likewise, our mind organ also gives us only such pre-set drama of life as famously found by our modern eras greatest philosopher Emmanuel Kant. Mind is like a forcibly worn colour spectacle on man by nature . to make us see life and world the way it has been pre-set for our special perception. We can not ever cross this barrier of mind in its usual application and understand absolute reality, or the reality in itself. We see and understand a given object or reality only as our subjective impression it has created in our mind! This impression has nothing to do with what the object is in itself. Kant said such absolute in itself reality is well within the reach of man but through intuition but he has not elaborately touched details of the path of intuition. But he certified the findings of science as science has nothing to do with reality in itself. Science is concerned only with how, and to what extent it serves mans practical purposes. This revolutionary idea about mans notion of reality has philosophical similarity with the finding of the great scientist, Heisenberg in his un-certainty principle. When the scientist attempted to study the jump of an electron as an independent phenomenon, what

he found was that jump was merely a reaction to the probes he had introduced to study! These two findings throws doubt whether an in-itself reality really exists at all! What man could observe is only the objects REACTION to the seeker. This reaction is what we carry as our impression about such objects, relation or experience., in the name of reality. For a new born baby, his/her mothers breast is an altogether different reality that what would be it to a passionate lover! The object is same but for both the parties it is unimaginably different reality!

Close similarity of our other sense organs with the organ of mind It is interesting to note the close similarity of mind with our other sense organs - -our ear drum will burst if exposed to sounds beyond its capacity to bear. Eyes will go blind if exposed to extremely bright light, beyond its maximum range. Very similarly, mind also will break if exposed to extreme emotions like fear, grief or even confusion! In short, what we enjoy or experience as life is not an independent phenomenon as we generally think Our so called free will is merely our freedom to respond to this life the way we feel fit and in this process of reacting freely, create your own entity and your own world. In short, mind, in its routine, usual use, provides him with series of specialized realities, and in this process gives birth to his entity as a unique individual. Few central features of mans realities Will our usual seeing things, processing it and making impressions in our mind make realities? No. Such subjectively formed impression has to be shared or communicated with at least one more person and when both agree on it, it has attained the status of a reality. Think what would have happened if Einstein did not have anyone in the scientific community to understand and realize his theory of relativity during his time? All such unexpressed, ideas and impressions would remain only as subjective fiction, like un-born child, till it is shared with the world. Millions of supernovas and other remote cosmic events might be taking place in the far away galaxies but man live his life in his corner with his own known realities. This essential fact about origin of reality strongly points towards the very secret behind existence itself - - -creation of universe and then parking therein entities with mind like organ was for the very sake of origin of realities and birth of entities for relishing such realities! It was an act of converting nothingness into something . . .or singleness into duality. First step of duality is the knowing mind and objective phenomenon as the feed for the mind, and in the second step of duality, two minds to interact and thus making realities together.

1) Hence, the first ingredient in the making of realities was the duality in the scheme of existence. Hence the theory is, for origin of any reality, there should be at least two agents, the communicator and the receiver. This is the meaning of the concept duality. But the necessary duality for the origin of reality need not always require two individuals . . .it could be a duality within the same individual too, between two divisions of his self. One part of the division is his personality, his subjective entity he displays before others, and the other what he thinks of himself, the in itself entity if we use Kants terminology for easy grasp. Every one is familiar with the selftalk, the reasoning with oneself, the war between he and the conscience etc. Such self created realities are private realities, but it is the mother of all public realities. Example of those who have made the realm of remote causes their primary reality has been seen above. For such men, the reality of world and their fellow beings around them is quite different from the common folk. These are mans layers of entity within. Man creates realities whenever interaction takes place between any two of the said layers of his internal entities.

2) When something is expressed by one and grasped by the other, a reality is born but does it qualify for the status of objective reality - -independent of both parties? No again. Both could keep only their own subjective impression about the agreed thing or experience. Words originated to identify such agreed upon items and ideas in human society. Everyone knows that a word creates different images in the minds of people according to his familiarity and use with the subject item or idea. But our practical purposes solved by the invention of language. 3) The third ingredient that goes into making of realities is this varying degree of familiarity and use by the communicating parties. Everyday and every moment, man add up new experiences to himself and turn a new aggregate. It is like a mathematical aggregate, added-up with smaller sums. Elephant is an entirely different entity for its mahout than a casual onlooker because the mahouts familiarity with the animal is far greater than the casual on looker. Thus it is different realities for both parties. Quality of his impressions on external realities thus changes constantly depending upon the then status of such aggregates. So, this aspect also goes into affecting or making ones reality. 4) The fourth is the initial communicators tone of the act, the emotion in which he had packed his impression etc. The effect of a cool political speech and a fiery one is known to every one of us - -the second kind can move a crowd to assault and even kill the opponents. Mass communication and creation of mass realities

The first and foremost mass reality that you and me are aware is the great reality of the world- - - world of the mass media and governments, but not the world of Science. It consists the people of the world, their socio-political institutions ,beliefs and myths, their climate, wars, disease and death and every such thing covered by the media. It is here that we live and whose reality affects us directly. It is close to us in time and space. The reality of the physical universe, of planets, stars and the infinity of space is immaterial to us with regard to our life in the other world of mass media in which we live - -our ancestors of few hundreds years lived here with the belief that earth was flat and sky a dome! Our present picture about the same place, with all our knowledge about subatomic particles and the remote galaxies would be looked down upon as silly by our future generation few hundred years ahead! If it was mere impression of our past generation, it is now our impression. But we are far ahead of them in exploring many more secrets of nature and making it part of our world reality, dragging it close to us from the remoteness of time and space. Mankinds dream is to drag everything close to him from the remoteness of time and space and make them part of his familiar world - - - leaving nothing out there in the realm of absolute reality or absolute cause! As already described, here and now realities of the world originate when men share experiences between each other. In the past, before the emergence of newspapers and TV channels in its present mass scale, world was different for people living at many different parts of the globe. Their realities were different. Now, thanks to globalization, it is almost one world at least for the educated, paper reading, TV viewing class. But still there are pockets of smaller worlds in many parts of African, Arabian and Asiatic regions where the mass images of one world and its realities have not penetrated yet. One of the central features of mass communication is its one sided-ness - - -it is not two way, but one way. Mass ideas and images bombarded on people in the form of ready made realities. Such ready made realities gets added up to the receivers, ie. common man and his aggregate factor changed in the process. He becomes a new aggregate every day hence his realities too. We have seen that pure objective reality is a myth, hence mass impressions un-knowingly or even intentionally communicated get transformed into realities of the world and people within no time. The role of the world as a canvas for drawing self-identity of men, or, a massive object to react/respond to We have seen the central fact of duality in the act of making realities, the initiator and the receiver. Existentially both the initiator and the receiver are vacuums, a non-entity, as the absolute reality about life and existence lie in the remoteness of space and time, in the realm of first causes. Hence the initiator as well as the receiver often draws their identities from what has been communicated or received, like I am the one who initiated

the communication or the one who received it, or the witnesses to the reality we had created together! In other words the entity of man often gets created upon what reality he has created! This existential fact is true even for a new born child - -he gets his early identity as the object of his mothers attention and love, and then it progresses ahead in this fashion through other relations, his schooling, and finally a world member. In other words, thoughts and realities come first, thinker, I, later, though it may appear a puzzling proposition initially. In short, man generally draws his self-identity as a member of the world, it being the ready made reality in front of him. He uses world as a canvas to draw his picture in! His personality evolves around the pattern he has chosen to respond to the world. The way the world is, the way man is. In other words, my entity can be summed up as my REACTION or my RESPONSE to the world or the objects or people of the world. If a different world reality can be created by altering the theme and the tone of mass communication, it would be different reality for men and he would be able to draw his altered self-image, self-reality. It is not that this central fact about mass communication is not in the awareness of the minds behind the world media, but many a times such worlds are intentionally created for marketing or market oriented, or even political power oriented-ideological reasons. But there can not be two opinions that world is a created reality, a manufactured product, or at least an alterable reality. Hence mans realities are also not static - -he can experience different kind of realities if the canvas, his world and its reported contents are altered. Banishment of the entity of man on account of the excessively expressed reality of world Though it has been observed that world, or others is giving birth to the entity of man, it also extinct his entity many times. When the spell of the mass communication becomes excessive and un-defendable, individual entities dissolve and the spirit of the impersonal world seizes them. World and its notion of the collective often knocks out the centre of the already formed individuality or many a times, this spell prevents the very formation of such vital center in men. When such entity-less men share their experiences, the reality of the world as a diabolic entity gets stronger and stronger. These men represent the entity of such diabolic world and they are a very familiar feature of todays democratic societies. They are generally found in-capable of even imagining anything above the seen and the heard, anything beyond space and time reality, at the realm of ultimate causes. They Generally form the so called lumpen elements of the familiar democratic crowds, willing to loot and kill upon orders from their leaders, the highly de-humanized police force in some countries, habitual criminals and under world-gang members. What we observe here is the modern day phenomenon of the observed realities swallowing the observer and in the process, completely making him extinct!

Reality for this people is made by the interaction between the two mandatory entities; the world and the self declared member of such world, the unfortunate victim. Further deeper layers of his entity that create private realities are non-existent here. Final word on the reality of the knower, man, and the known, the world We have now seen that reality of both the knower (Man) and the known (world) is purely relative and totally subjective. It was different few centuries ago, it will be un-imaginably different few centuries ahead from now. If a new ideology grab the world tomorrow concerning his socio-political life and if media plays it up with the required hype, it would a different world altogether for man from next day, a different object to respond to and a different canvas to draw his picture in. Simple example of this phenomenon is an office where the boss undergoes an ideological change of mind one fine morning, about his attitude towards his subordinates, or a stunning behavioural technique towards customers. He calls every one for a short meeting to introduce the change and orders issued for the adhering to the changed behaviour pattern. Lo - - -! This office would be changed world for every one from next day and men will go back homes as different personalities! In the life of married couples, if one party suddenly decide to adopt a changed behaviour pattern as part of a new year resolution, in no time life of both would get changed instantly! It is a simple fact about mans realities. Reality is nothing but what gets exchanged among people. The reality of the great silence behind the mind and the world curtain If back again to the realm of absolute reality or absolute cause behind life and existence, in the remoteness of mind and world curtain, first, one should have a quick ,rational look into whether such a realm really exist or not. Mind, we have seen, is just another organ that give man his entity first and his realities. But some part of the mind, or a part or realm above it or parallel to it, or leave away its spatial location, is what gave us this very notion of something beyond it. Like mind look at our physical body and say it is my body this mystery part say it is my mind. It proves that there is something beyond and outside the mind which can observe it as an external organ. We need to probe bit more deep on this drama. We used the word rational very casually, concerning the application of mans faculty of Reason. It is considered to be the faculty of mind that checks consistency of our thoughts and conclusions. But can we just stop there at understanding our Reason? Truth is that, many of this mystery facultys features are still un-explored and un-known. What makes the scientists feel that their knowledge about universe is grossly in-complete despite all our deep peep into structure of atom and far away galaxies? Reason not only judge upon the consistency of given data but also taunt man about missing links ! Who flashes novel hypothesis before enquiring minds and compel it to look at new possibilities and relations? Yes, Reason acts like a prism many a times when a ray of

new thought is allowed to pass through is. It splits it into its constituents. So, Reason must be understood as a hidden SEAT OF ORDER or a hidden sensor of order in mind. ( like the light sensor in a camera that judges adequacy of light outside) It perpetually taunt the enquiring mind for finding order, not only in thoughts but in his all around surrounding. Beauty is nothing but ORDER, hence mans appetite for beauty and his nativity for art forms of all kinds. (music, painting, poetry, sculpture) What other mystery organ inside of even a layman that makes him realize the discord when a musical knot is played incorrectly? Or what makes him to yell out when a photo-frame is not fitted straight on the wall? He fiercely seeks freedom because without it this seat of Order does not work. Leaders and reformers are under compulsion to change the world because what they seek unknowingly is order around them. Sages relentlessly search for truth under its spell. Cause of his moral and ethical compulsions within is also not different. Man seeks ultimate answers for life and existence due to this ever burning piece of fire within him. Without answers to fundamental questions about life and existence, he has no peace. This is the work of this central piece of mystery in man, his link to realities beyond the world and the mind curtain. Human Reason, thus, is the sole thing in man that links him to directly to the hidden mysteries of existence! This Reason organ need to be seen as distinct and different from the primary organ of mind. When mind separates man by putting its veil upon ultimate realities, Reason directly links him to such realms beyond time and space. Mind gives man his entity by its interaction with the would, but Reason enter the stage later to tease and taunt him about foundation of his very entity and then the realities provided by the mind. Mans world can change overnight if flashes of these realities are brought to the day to day awareness of common man by the mass media, and make the world a different stuff to react and place mans entity in. The very awareness and acceptance of the existence of such realms above the mind and the beyond the curtain of the world would be enough to add spice to the now sterile life on earth. It would offer life of man a real link to the miracle called existence. It will dramatically transform the canvas of the world. It could open the door to a one for all new spirituality for the entire world sans the sectarianism and ritualism of existing religions. Abraham Feb,2009