Let us leave the supramental, spiritual and psychic apart for a moment. Nor can we arrive at the real problem if we just think in terms of numbers and case studies.
1. Has there been an increase of psychiatric as well as other illnesses?
Most probably yes. The reason is manifold. Science with its expansion of medication has lowered the natural resistance as far as physical conditions go. Labelling is another problem as far as psychiatric illnesses go. Labelling isolates a person and then instead of treating him as an organic whole we treat symptoms. There is also a lot of pressure, often unnecessary and artificial, created by the excessive value given to money and the comforts it can provide. Children live in an excessive competitive environment, all byproducts of a society centered around outer success, ambition and money. Science has placed at our disposal tremendous capacity to hurt, harm, destroy ourselves and others. The values have all been inverted by the ingenious mind largely under the influence of the rapidly declining Western civilisation. Drugs, arms, nuclear arsenal, free sex, pornography, erosion of family and national values, excessive importance to dress, makeup, luxury brands that fuel competetition, are all ‘gifts’ of the materially advanced countries. Even modern medicines that have flooded the market with tall claims and destroyed the indigenous healing methods useful for centuries, the superfoods and supermarkets convincingly advertising their products to pickpocket us neatly are all again the products of the same mental civilisation. Liberty has been changed into licentiousness, unity into uniformity, equality into a flattening of distinctions, spirituality into a market and business. One could go on. In a nutshell we are witnessing the extreme end of a civilisation based on the powers of the mind catering to our physical and vital comforts.
But what is the reason for this? If you see closely it is the extreme limit of the old world centered around the bodily life and personal comfort zones. That is what Science and industry has largely catered for. The results are for all to see and learn from.
But if we take a more dispassionate look and compare the present times with just a century back we shall see how tremendously things have shifted and are rapidly shifting in an overall positive way. Many children today are much more conscious than their parents whose life was centered around petty things. God and Religion were not a means for higher spiritual seeking but for additional comfort zones. There is a sudden expansion and widening of perspectives, a higher seeking, a more psychic turn, a true subjectivism of something deeper and truer seeking for true love, true light, true knowledge, true power (soft power), rather than the false subjectivism centered around the ego and the fancies of our mind. This is where the future is being created, in the hearts of children whom I see often. You yourself would be one of them. But if we look for the change in the newspapers, political news, money markets, various surveys, you will find the dismal picture of a world that is collapsing fast. Wait and the picture will become clearer depending upon which side you chose to look, a world that is dying or a world that is newborn and growing slowly and silently but certainly.
Affectionately,
Alok da
