The war of misinformationists

The greatest critics of cultural rituals today are so‐called intelligentsia who have purchased stock in superiority by virtue of westernized education and lifestyles.

They call everything they do not understand misinformation.

These intellectuals refuse to acknowledge the connection of Indiaʼs cultural norms with profound ancient sciences, but are quick to embrace western norms as evidence for progress.

The Armed Forces of Ayurveda

The strategic warrior knows to avoid conflict. Ask the General of a great army and s/he will tell you that resources are better spent training soldiers and building character than sending them to slaughter.  When a conflict situation arises, advance teams are sent in quietly to survey the land, the water, the air, and the sense of time that occurs in the area. Only after a strategy of wellness and survival is established do the batallions surge into battle.

Ancient customs of Ayurveda prepared for invasion of invisible enemies by also preparing the land, the water, the air, and the sense of time. Cultural norms and restrictive customs were put into place that outsiders found bizarre, but were effective. The caste system, the rules of ucchiṣṭa, the rituals of fasting and cleaning at sunrise and sunset, and house hygiene rules kept out invasions.

For a thousand years, as Japanese smallpox and cycles of the Great Plagues, the Bubonic Plague, the Black Death, the Antonine Plague and the Justinian plague, swept over Europe, Africa, and East Asia, India remained the center of the trade world. Yet over 5000 years, India was never ripped apart by a pandemic.

Today public health researchers embrace trends in large populations and use them as evidence to advise policy.  But when Ayurveda points to trends, scientists need a molecule with a mechanism of action in order to claim its intervention as evidence. They denigrate Ayurveda as unscientific rituals.

Even today, the greatest critics of cultural rituals are the so-called intelligentsia who have purchased stock in superiority by virtue of their westernized educations and lifestyles. They refuse to acknowledge the connection of India’s cultural norms with ancient sciences. but they are quick to embrace western norms as evidence for progress. These intelligentsia spouted venom about 1.4bn in India clapping at sunset on March 22, and lighting diyas on April 5, but are now happy to join New York, Spain, and France, holding daily clapping sessions at 8pm and lighting candles.

Instead of understanding the varna system as profession-based club entry lines separating teachers from laborers, landowners from craftsmen, western invaders interpreted internal family-based restrictions and cultural rules in Bharat as an oppressive “caste system.” They propagated it to maintain dominion. Internal restrictive customs created largely for hygiene and prevention of ferengue (syphilis) and other diseases into the next generation were interpreted and propagated as oppression of women.

Restrictive and punishing rules of caste bullying and inter-religious strife were then successfully passed on to small-minded Indians seeking exactly such rules in order to wield some local power in the panchayat system of village rulers, expanding into the British era. People forgot that the divisions were created as social distancing, to prevent pandemics.

Some knew the reasoning behind original ancient cultural restrictions because they accessed the original books. Most did not. Those who taught the ancient sciences and explained the rituals of sunrise and sunset and house hygiene rules simply as protective medicine were widely respected, open to teaching all learners and uninhibited by caste, gender, or creed.

The basis for the rules was the scientific observation, yatha pinde tatha brahmande, as in the microcosm, so in the macrocosm. The wise teacher says, just as we can see and understand things at our scale and size of being, so too the larger Universe and the smaller Universe operate on similar rules of biology, chemistry, physics, and ecology.  

Modern medicine understands scales of microcosm and macrocosm from the nanoparticle to the size of a human, from nanometers to meters, seeing a huge spectrum. Everything beyond it is “magical,” irrational, and pseudoscience. It is denigrated, as seen in the 27 April issue of Nature journal, misinformation issue.

In contrast, Ayurveda understood a larger frame of reference, using scales of microcosm and macrocosm from the yoctometer 10-24, smaller than Avagadro’s number, working on the level of particle-less waves to the yotttameter 10+24, which describes galaxies. Ancient scientists related the smallest particles up to the size of a human and beyond to planetary influences, using seamless bodies of understanding.

Higgs did this with his particle theory and Nobel physicist de Broglie did this by describing the smallest phenomena and relating them to the largest Universe, but the pseudoscience clamor has not yet caught up with interfacing medical sciences with the other sciences. Everything they do not understand is misinformation and quackery.

The ancient scientists watched trends in the skies, the sun, the moon, the waters, and the land’s birds, animals, trees, and insects.  They watched cycles of nourishment and depletion and learned to predict what they foretold.

Bizarre customs that follow these invisible cycles were instituted to prevent disease. They were based on an understanding that invisible particles created disease. They were institutionalized because people who followed them did not get sick. At sunrise, doors were opened to take orange-red rays into the eyes for 10 minutes before they became yellow and blinding. These rays align the clock genes in our body and keep our immunity strong. Clothes were dried in the sunlight because the rays kill microscopic invaders. Morning and evening incense and fumigation burned plants with aromatic oils and poisons to clean the air. Eating was forbidden at times, which we now know corresponds to spore cycles. Cups and utensils were not shared.

Another war has begun adjacent to the pandemic. It is the war against misinformation, led by fractured scientists who cannot fuse modern sciences into harmony with the sciences of Nature.

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