A layman from the East

[JohnMuthukat]

Just found this forum while surfing for something else, liked the subjects under discussion, decided to join.

I am an Indian, living in a village in the southern state, Kerala.

I'm not much into traditional philosophy.

I am no specialist, and realize that, in this specialist age, no man—not even any scientist, let alone a layman like me—can make a synthesis, even of scientific findings, which anyone would consider significant; and that any attempt to cull, not only from science but from religion and history as well, the materials for shaping a wisdom about life would be as foolish as it would be impossible. However experience has taught me that concentration in a discipline often makes for a narrowness of vision, and an inability to see beyond the limits of one’s assumptions.

It was the reading and self-education I did on health and diseases of both mind and body that got me into this venture and the robust self confidence that drives me. I focused only on success—success stories of people and other species that keep themselves out of disease and unnecessary problems, people who lived the longest and healthiest, people who had travelled and observed human beings all over the world. I did not focus on the standard scientific or medical dogma, because that has all been a failure and that there are more diseases, sickness, and misery in modern society than ever before in human history.

It seemed to me that at every turn of my search, I learned something that contradicted what I thought I knew. The history of man is the history of man gaining self-consciousness through his interaction with the objective world surrounding him.

[Lynn]

Hi JohnMuthukat and welcome to the forum.
Every turn leads to another path, which has brought you here .

[JohnMuthukat]

Thanks.