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Namah A Turbulent Passage

while others drain and disturb us. Which too since thought-waves travel like other
one would you like to carry around you? waves and can be modified as they cross long
distances. Yet there is greater flexibility in
The occult commerce behind life their operation and we are seldom at guard
against their intrusion. Unlike physical forces,
We are in a state of constant interchange with we have not yet studied the psychological
the world and environment, not only through forces that move us, partly because it is
our bodies but also through our thoughts, difficult to measure and quantify them (and
feelings, desires and impulses. We know, science relies largely on these methods),
for instance, that our body must constantly but partly also because our nature is still
adjust to the physical environment, to not developed enough to be sensitive to
changes in temperature, humidity, etc. changes in the subtle environment. Most
Equally, we also in turn, contribute to a change of us are conscious only of our bodies and
in the environment. The sweat we release, of physical objects that inhabit the physical
the heat of our bodies, the waste we throw space. Besides, it is a sad fact that much of our
out, the odours we emit, our very breath, act education with its over-emphasis on physical
upon the environment. We also know that sciences and its pursuit of gross physical
the physical environment may sometimes be aims such as money and comfort, serves
teamed with dangerous micro-organisms that only to blunt our inner sensitivity. But, just
may, in certain conditions of susceptibility, as our inability to sense many environmental
threaten our very life. All this is, of course, a changes does not mean that the changes are
common knowledge and accepted fact, even not there, so also our inability to perceive and
though we do not see this ‘transaction’ with sense psychological atmospheres does not
our naked eyes, nor always feel it except mean that the difference does not exist. The
when it is extreme or produces concrete fact is that our unspoken thoughts, feelings,
results, such as infection, heat, etc. What desires, all act, react and interact upon each
we do not know or acknowledge easily is other. The fact is also, that just as human
that just like the physical, the psychological beings have a physical side, a psychological
environment also acts upon us even as we side and a spiritual side, so also the universe
can act upon it in however small a measure. and everything in it has these three sides,
However, a little observation will show us even though we are not always conscious
that our psychological condition and inner of it.
state is contagious, sometimes even more
contagious, than physical condition. This
is so because for a physical contagion there
must be a concrete material medium through
physical means such as shaking of hands or
close, sometimes an intimate contact. But
psychological contagion can spread through
subtler means, such as constant thinking or
feeling strongly about someone and vice-
versa. Though distance does matter, here

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