Insights of a layman into Science(Class X knowledge) & Spirituality(Zero knowledge)

Have you ever wondered that how do we know certain things- simply out of the blue? Things that no one taught us but still we know. Like to use our senses or how to have sex (well I am talking about the age before Google and UTube can teach everything and leave nothing to imagination). Where does this knowledge come from?

To answer that let’s break a human onto a three dimensional graph as follows:
a. The X axis represents the physical body
b. The Y axis the mind – that which makes us conscious and;
c. The Z axis the soul – the unconscious self that is a form of energy – our link to higher energies if they exist (that something called as a soul exists – has been scientifically proven and I am not arguing that).

The (0, 0, 0) coordinate- where the 3 axis meet represents any living creature exactly at the time of conception (not birth). Over a period of time (the fourth dimension to our graph) we become what we are – dogs, cats, whales, birds and humans. Even how good or bad we turn out to be depends on the movement across the co-ordinates of the graph.


The soul in pure scientific terms is a small portion of energy lent out by the universe (or God or whatever) to us to make us “aware” and “conscious”. The moment the soul departs the body becomes an empty box and the brain dies out. And the soul, true to the nature of energy (Energy can neither be created nor destroyed-it can only be converted from one form to another) goes back to where it belongs to.

That means a particular soul goes through the same energy conversion process as all the other souls and this means that all of them will have the same kind of properties. And memories. And maybe that answers how we simply know certain things – because it’s all hard coded into our souls. While the brain acts as the ROM- remembering stuff from just this life the soul is our RAM and the body becomes the outer shell…Thinking on these terms makes me think of the possibility of past lives because what we call as life is simply the intersection of body and soul (these two may or may not intersect with the brain thereby giving rise to Newtons, common man and duffers.

Now lets talk about how the fields represented by the three axis (excluding time) actually co-ordinate (or rather “talk” to each other). The brain and the body, talk via the waves generated by the brain and carried around by the nervous system. The brain and soul – the conscious and the sub-conscious interact via dreams. Both the soul and the brain record the happenings of a particular day. Since the soul is much older than has bigger memory than the brain it is in a better position to advise the brain. The dreams thus are a representation of what we sensed over the day – the hidden aspects that we are unaware of.

But how about the body and soul talk? I pondered over this for a long while and realized that they do not speak to each other-or we do not allow them to do so. Ask a God man and he will say that prayer is the means. Maybe they are right, maybe not. After all the concept of “look within thyself” has been around as long as one goes back in history. It’s in the past few 100 years that the concept of “look within thyself” has been linked with Gods and prayers. The ultimate objective even of prayer or meditation is to question your soul, thereby linking ourselves to the higher powers to find solutions.

However, in today’s rat race body soul interaction is slowly becoming a thing of the past. If things go the way they are (with all the information available on web) we might as well stop asking questions to ourselves – thereby stopping the body-soul interaction. I may top the chart of people who say “let’s check on Google” but still others are not far behind. Its far more tempting to digest have readily cooked information than baking your own cake. It quite possible that 50 years down the line children will be born only with one knowledge “check it on Google” and they type in everything right from “how to cry” to “what I do when someone tickles me”. No imagination, no soul searching – just plain database access. And if the database is destroyed they become nothing but damaged robots. The idea may seem laughable but to support this notion lets go into the past. Children who were born 50 years ago were healthier and had better survival skills than those of today, even if the death rate was high. Reason? Access to medication and comforts. The two of them together kill body immunity – thereby making “things” (or people) survive even when they are not the fittest ones. Another example – most of the animals in the wild can fend for themselves within days of being born…compare that to the time a human child takes and you would actually want to die out of shame…

Let’s add another dimension to our diagram – space. Space as in Universe. If scientists are to be believed the universe is expanding every second and time started when space came into existence. What hypnotists do when they hypnotize is that they direct the brain to a visit a particular incident (or space) at a particular point in time.

Thus what we call as memory may actually be very much of a “reality” (or present tense) stored in that space and all the brain has to do is to visit that particular location in space again and again. Since there is an inverse relationship between body and time it’s physically impossible to visit the location (and thus we refer to it as past) but the direct relationship between time and soul/brain makes it possible for them to jump across the time graph. Let’s hold on to this discussion here and move on to the next target –thoughts. They are brain waves…very much measurable – which means that they again are a form of energy. Our actions are based on thoughts thus it is conversion of one form of energy into another. What happens to those thoughts that we consider as alternatives but do not act on for reasons such as non-feasibility, paucity of time or what ever. What happens to the energy of the unused thoughts?

If incidents or actions that we do have storage space in the universe then the same would be true about the unused thoughts. Thus all that we actually did or planned to do is actually happening right now also – it’s just that because of body and time limitations we are unable to visit it. Several scientists have suggested the possibility of “Alternate reality” i.e. in some other reality our unused thoughts have taken the shape of an action. Thus in my real “reality” I would still be a child, a teenager and a married woman. While in an alternate reality number one I would be a child, a teenager and a single woman (because I had an unused thought of not marrying). In alternate reality number two I would only be a child because I killed myself when I decided to cross the road unheeded. In another alternate reality I would be still working in my previous company at this point in time because I was so scared to leave without another job in hand…so on and so forth.

PS : The opinions expressed in the article are solely of the writer. I have tried to make them based out of scientific knowledge but there might be severe loopholes. Also, the writer does not intend to express any kind of disregard or hatred towards the internet,Google or any other company.