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Namah The Great Shift

The root of these seekings and strivings is everything, science and religion, new and old
spiritual. Finally, there is a direct expression alike, but while arriving at conclusions they
of the spiritual impulse, a seeking after the use reason not in a typically defined rules of
authentic spiritual experience, a return to logic but in a supple and plastic manner that
the primaeval seeking for God, Light, Love, uses data but does not keep aside common
Freedom and Immortality. sense in arriving at the result. The recent
uproar against the vaccine was a sign of this
These children, whom we may call forerunners new angst which does not like anything to be
of an emergent spiritual evolution are showing imposed and feels empowered to make their
interest in spiritual understanding of life and own decisions. Rules they do not follow or
even a rudimentary spiritual aspiration at a believe in and prefer to act according to the
rather young age of even 7 or 9, some just truth they feel in their heart.
as they are entering adolescence around
11 or 12. On the one hand, they startle, if
not sometimes shock the adult world with
their sudden burst of insight as well as their
penetrating questions. They don’t accept
anything on the basis of blind belief, but
they equally don’t discard anything based
on blind assumptions either. While these
children must be everywhere, perhaps going
unnoticed due to the strong materialistic Whither Medicine?
tendencies, in India at least they can be seen
here and there often enough to be noticed. While all this churning and the consequent
There are other changes as well, such as emergence is taking place, when even the
need for freedom and space, unconventional hard rock of physics and the subtle field of
thought-forms, novel ways of dealing with psychology is beginning to shift, we may
complex life problems and relationship wonder whither medicine is going? Why
issues, tendency to be happily single or else are we not doing more experiments on the
be in an open-ended relationship without effect of thoughts, feelings, faith, will, etc on
marriage, taking up new and unexpected fields illnesses including if it can impact our genetic
of work, going beyond gender distinctions and unfolding as well? The answer seems obvious.
norms and conventions, less of family but It is because unlike physics and psychology,
more of friends oriented, quite individualistic the field of medicine is now linked to big
in choices perhaps earning them the ill - money especially the pharma industry and
reputation of me and mine generation. They other forms of interventions. Another reason
look beyond their immediate concerns and is that there is a kind of scientific ego that is
comfort-zones and go seeking adventure in unwilling to examine any other idea.
the trail of the new and the unknown. Taking
active interest in world events, they engage It is not only possible, but quite likely that the
in politics and history and often refuse to emergence of this new consciousness is, on
accept anything on face value. They question the one hand disrupting the old equilibrium

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