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Moving Forward

We move in a fast-changing world surrounded with uncertainties. On the one hand,
science has brought a number of gifts at our doorsteps. On the other, it has weakened
our natural immunity to an extent that we are becoming more and more vulnerable
to various illnesses. A fast-track life, supported by a number of gadgets, has brought
new challenges to our social and community health, leaving aside the impact upon the
spiritual dimension. While many are perhaps simply moving on a roller-coaster ride
through a vortex whose path and goal are not immediately visible, there are a few who
are seeking a stable basis behind this constant and rapid flux and change. To these, the
fast-track life has only helped to increase the spiritual urge as a means to get out of the
confusion that surrounds our mental world.

Is it the end of the world built by the
mind that has reached its acme? Or
is it a new beginning, the emergence
of a spiritual world from within the
empire of the half-blind king, the
Mind? This is the question we have
to ponder about. It is as if we stand
at the crossroads of a civilisation
built by the mind wherein we can
either go further along the routes
that the mind has taken us so far or
else branch out into a new and unprecedented direction towards a higher evolution.

To put it paradoxically, we have to choose between the Artificial Intelligence (AI) that
machines and science can provide or the Divine Intelligence (DI). Perhaps it is now a
race with time, whether AI takes over first and further pauperises man or else the human
intelligence evolves into DI and uses AI as its tool or simply discards it as another useless
encumbrance.

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