AN ALTERNATE CONSCIOUSNESS
Questions arising from a recent idea of finding the Higgs Boson particle that defines a space zero ( empty space) that creates matter and adds mass to that matter are intriguing. The idea that this has been researched for close to 110 years since the inception of the idea and now we have started an experiment to find out if this does exist and if it manifests via a manipulative simulation of the universal force of which we have been derived, is very stimulating. Hypothetically this was the only explanation one could assume which had a high probability of being reality. However the key question to ask is Higg's thought created this particle in our imagination even before science decided to spend an extensive amount of deductive thought resulting in a multi billion dollar experiment. Our consciousness had a seed planted and we have a vivid picture of what has already existed even before our collective physical experience or the want of it took shape and resulted in this experiment. I think now its not a question of if the experiment is successful or not. The question is what is the deductions of the success or failure of this experiment?
One part of the world is waiting for the experiment to fail as if its not successful as in we are not able to manifest the particle, we are looking for then the idea is that we will be reaffirming a faith in religion that a higher power which we cannot comprehend just with the human faculties of mind and logic is the source of our creation and it is impossible for a human force and team to mimic this. Another part of the world is waiting for success to reaffirm a faith in the limitless possibilities of human potential to mimic nature and have a perfectly logical explanation of the same.
The world's consciousness is therefore divided into two distinct parts each waiting for its own ego to be fulfilled by sweat of this endeavor. What if both are true, that there is a figment of thought that has created the universe actually. A thought whose intelligence is so vast and of a pure form that language limitations come in the way of explaining it. It could be that the creation process has actually changed since it was first activated for the creation of the universe and what Higg's thought process could connect to was a older process that might not even exist today. This should link us to a different consciousness beyond the famous war between science and religion that has fragmented our intelligence created doubts and has led to doubts.

Science's basis for explaining the results of an experiment would be language. What if our language did not evolve to explain this concept yet. Religion also uses language in books to explain the facts beyond our active consciousness and so might have come short so far in explaining this. This could have been the fundamental reason for most prophets and knowers of the truth in telling us to first "believe" and then to "see" as belief alters our consciousness and then our perceptions would change to see an alternate possibility which otherwise would be difficult to experiment and find out. However, since we had limitations of language, the prophets could only tell us parts of the whole reality. There is a limitation so far in a transference of experience. If I were to transfer my feeling of an experience to another person, then I would have a very efficient way of explaining a truth that I have experienced.So respecting the possibility of the prophets being knowers of the truth still puts the doubt that they might not have expressed themselves to us in this age and that the books we read about them have limitations of language and no transference of experience. Our doubt remains and this is the fragmentation of our intelligence I am talking about which would exist even after this experiment produces results one way or the other. So this consciousness would always be fragmented and so is not the path to the truth.
Neither science nor religion therefore have any more benefits than the betterment of our physical well being and fall short of removing the eternal doubt and fragmentation of our consciousness.

What then is the path....?? An alternate consciousness that breaks both paths with their shortcomings that of pure intelligence without experiment or belief. How we do we achieve that.
I will show the signs here that there is a way for this new consciousness to emerge. We know that our consciousness is a collection of not only what we have perceived in our own lives but also the theorems and hypothesis created by others as well that we learn now through formal channels of education and reading.
So far this has been limited to the few hundreds or if lucky thousands of books we can read over a lifetime of educating and learning. However, today the Internet has combined this consciousness of each individual into a common pool of interconnected thought pods connected by data superhighways. The colossus of exchange that happens here expands the possibilities we see in different realms of our consciousness. Language still poses its limitations but this new consciousness is bigger than the published access.
What if the Internet can turn experience into data and then when data can travel from one place to another on a wire and then be converted back into experience on the other side. We can potentially have transference of experience.
Don't mistake what I am talking about to the minuscule of this possibility in 4D cinema which has tried to create sense of smell and touch in addition to a spatial view of objects. That is just an illusion only and should not be mistaken with what I am talking about.
Neural networks can mimic a single experience which is non-complex and singular in nature into data. And as long as the packets of this data can be transferred in a time where the experience giver and taker have a perception of zero loss of time then what I am talking about is possible.
It is this fictional figment of my imagination that we will follow in "The Alternate Consciousness". All exponents of truth have been persecuted in history.This exponent is not a person but a forceful Alternate consciousness that cannot be persecuted and is ageless. So my hope is bigger for the world and our fragmented consciousness.....!!!
TO BE ARRIVED....!!!

Globalization as a phenomena affecting social as well as cultural landscapes across the globe is taking new shapes and definitions. However, the views on this so far have been two faced and emanating from a single geography. That of the USA. The reasons for this could be Multiple, but one reason stands out as most obvious. That of fear, the most powerful motivator. Fear, that American jobs will be gone, fear that that skills developed painfully in the US, by select few will no longer be valid, and fear that globalization is the actual epidemic that will hit the US, more than any Bin Ladenish venture. I think the view point on globalization emanating from these fears is actually putting a blind eye on some of the more interesting paradigms. Unfortunately those paradigms validate the american fears rather than mitigate them. Firstly, the effects of globalization can be felt by examining key new business models that have emerged. For example, outsourcing of IT and business processes. What this has done is it has transferred the knowledge and the process execution capabilities associated with it, to a centralized location, in this case India. This centralization of knowledge and process execution capability in India has new dimensions. Today, an Indian IT person doing day to day execution of IT jobs for customers across the globe, is able to understand the IT operations, the business models, the cultures, and the needs of customers from various geos sitting at his own desk from his own hometown. This is an important dimension. The maturity coming from this sort of centralization would be priceless in the world skill dynamics. So its just not the skill of being able to perform an IT job. It is this skill that people are gaining, consciously or unconsciously that is vital. Not only that,Indian IT workers travel across the globe to different countries to co-ordinate onsite activities and manage the offshore-onsite interactions. Now all these people converge in a single place after their travels. Imagine the amount of knowledge and information on culture, business models that these people exchange among themselves. That skill will therefore be unique to one place, India. Now this is what should scare Americans than most other things they are worried about, if they already are not. Now one fact that is to be noted here, by companies trying to get themselves to be "globally integrated" as opposed to being just MNCs is the fact that the Indian companies, have already jumped on the wagon and have a centralized operating model, while work gets done in various countries and across various timezones. The knowledge capital, gained by these companies has taken them far across the "globally integrated" route. And the MNCs are still trying to adapt to that. Now, we all know that in business the early incumbecy factor, leads to faster maturity and therefore faster returns. Therefore these Indian companies, who got into the game via, cheaper labor, used the unrelenting investments made by American investors on Fibre Optic cable line capacities and transferred work to a centralized location have got a harmony, that will chug them along faster and smoother than any MNC on the "globally integrated route". That is a crucial factor which most American writers writing about globalization missed today. So next time you feel deprived, by an American colleague, because he/she believes you need more training, please have patience. Its only a matter of time when the intellectual seesaw will tilt your way. I am going to start a new series which I intend to turn into a book, called "Bottoms Up" where I intend to capture this phenomena, from the experience of people at the bottom, the developers, the project managers rather than what is there today, which is a top down view by visionaries and thinkers. Everyone who reads this, can help me, by sharing their experiences, and learning when they have travelled, due to them being in the epicenter of the new globalized world called India. I would like to document this phenomena that would be defining the IT world very soon. And for everyone who responds to this call of sharing your experience and knowledge with me, my sincere thanks.

So here are my thoughts on marraige. Before you read the thoughts below, I wanted to put one disclaimer. Some of the thoughts below, may be felt as offensive especially to the women in the group. But I consider them, as adult mature, women (and not girls) who can think and act as independently as anyone else and so I am sharing the thoughts as it is. Hope the women in the group take it in the same spirit and I am sure they will.

Marraige, brings in a new chapter in life. Your life for the first time becomes shared with someone. Every decision you take, every more you make, becomes a collective action as oppossed to a single point of view you had before the fact. While most of this gets lost in the business of life, this is the underlying tune that plays all through married life in the most subtle way.

While this is the effect of marraige, I think we should think about the cause to understand marraige as a concept. Marraige first of all,is common to all cultures, in the human world. That is a fact that has to be noted, because, while different human cultures evolved seperately and in isolation of each other, the commonality that exists in terms of marraige is remarkable. What it means is that for humans marraige is as necessary as other basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter etc. So what makes it so necessary?
The answer does not lie in the physical plane. While the physical need of sex does exist and is a stronger need sometimes than anything else in a modern society, I think the need for marraige, is not coming from those motivations. Marraige, tends to answer one of the most fundamental questions human beings have. That of completeness and perfection. While perfection is a question answered by the creation of the concept of "GOD" by us, the question of completeness is answered by the concept of marraige.
What then is this completeness? We are humans, have a limited set of vision and mental capabilities. We build a world around us, based on our perceptions of what we have seen. This is what is called our own intelligence. While this on an individual basis is a great amount of knowledge in quantity, as we grow, in terms of the quality and also in terms of vastness it is still limited.
How many of us for example, know every nook and corner of our own city. Leave, city, how many of us know every corner of our own house. I sometimes wonder about this when I discover a new corner on the wall that I have never bothered before to watch and discover.
So from that standpoint, a collective intelligence of another person, extends our capacities to gather intelligence and this is where the fundamental need of marriage arises. So why, does, friendship, not answer this question? The reason is in friendship the stakes are off. You, dont share a collective destiny in friendship, you only share happiness or sadness. The results of your destiny are only felt by you and your partner collectively, who you have tagged along with you due to marraige. This is what makes marraige a collective gathering of intelligence for survival and fulfillment and this is what marraige brings on board.

So while we have analysed the origins of marriage, one thing becomes very clear to us. The fact that marriage is all in the mental plane, and moreover in the spiritual plane. While this may sound as an oxymoron, to die hard catholics or to celbates in the hindu or buddhist faiths, this is the truth. A basic human need is what has culminated as a macroscopic, social phenomena in humans. It cannot be ignored.
So what is it in marraige that helps your spiritual self. Long time back when I got married my friend's father, had told me to think about something that would help me in my new life. He said, "think about the difference between being alone and being lonely!". At first I didnt understand it, and was too busy, thinking about what had just happenned to me ( marraige). But when I went back to my daily life after marraige and was seperated from my wife, at that time due to a business engagement, and stood at the corner of the Niagara falls thinking about her, I understood the statement.
We become lonely by circumstances on a physical plane sometimes. However, being alone is something else. Even if you are among a 1000 people, you will always be alone, since whats in your mind, only you know. And that is what being alone means. When you marry that mindshare is actually shared by another person. He/She shares your most intimate thoughts and if you are lucky and are in a true marraige, everything there is in there. And that being alone in togetherness with someone is what a good marraige is. And that is what the old man was suggesting to me. The teacher had appeared for me long time back, but an unintelligent mind that I was, I needed an experience to know that. An experience that took me away from my wife for a brief period of time and taught me how I needed to be alone in her togetherness.
So, now we are at a stage where we are also defining successful marriage as a concept. But if you ask me, there is no success there, there is marraige and there is no marraige thats all. Successful or failure in marraige is a concept coming out of ignorance. It is what marraige is. It may have lost its significance today, as we are considering other factors, such as height, personality, financial matching, caste, etc etc and complicating the matter actually when choosing our partner. Dont, get me wrong, all these matching make the concept a little bit easier, but I think the fact that we have a choice sometimes complicates it.
Someone a western person, asked Swami Vivekananda, on why arranged marraiges have been a way in the Indian System and why people are not allowed to make their own choices. He replied thus. He said India has been a very socialistic society since ages and that is why. He explained further, stating that if everyone had their own choice, then the best of the lot would get married only leaving the handicapped, the mentally or physically less capable people out of the equation. He said, in our society when elders select couples they select based on the need for everyone to have a marraige making in convenient for everyone to grow spiritually and help each other in the journey no matter what obstacles time and destiny had put in that path.

Wonderful isnt it!!! But what has happenned today. The elders, a group which now, at an individual level, have been reduced to parents of the individual, are either making choices based on their own ego fulfillment or are completely leaving it to the individual, in the name of freedom.

Both have destroyed the spiritual meaning of marraige, which now has been reduced to good sex, DINK couples ( double income no kids), sharing of a gaint EMI for a dream house, or mere existence together, or joining of families for collective wealth share increases or ego fulfillment, without any meaning or goal orientation from it with regards to the marraige itself.

On the choice angle everyone is looking for a partner who dances to the tunes of his/her own silly intellect rather than, preparing oneself to deal with difficulties of a partner in addition to our own difficulties which is what marraige is all about. This is what the choices of partners have become.

This is what marraige has been reduced to. The motivation has changed, thereby not allowing us to take complete benefit of a basic concept. So much, so that some people have chosen not to marry itself or are finding it extremely difficult to finally make the choices when allowed to.

In summary while the definitions have changed, obscuring the fundamental benefits, of marriage and its crucial significance in our lives, we will need to focus back on the basics to benefit from this concept to the maximum.

Some guidelines are therefore stated below, on a practical level as per what my opinion goes:

1) Marraige is acceptance. Accept what you get, deal with it, from the perspective that your partner's mental, physical, intellectual handicaps and needs are now yours too and prepare to deal with it together. While you do so enjoy the ride, since now you have a partner.

2) Communication is the key. Most times, our own needs and motivations are not clear to us, unless we talk about it with someone. Do it. Be talkatative at home, turn the damn tv off and spend specific time to do just this. Believe me it works wonders if you actually make an effort to spend this time. The effort you spend in making up for this time, itself is a joy.

3) When choosing life partners, if you unfortunately had to, choose from a common experience basis. Meaning,how many things among religious beliefs, financial conservativism, the perception of happiness, the perception of sadness do you commonly share with a prospective partner?

4) When you have already tied the knot, leave the thoughts of the choices behind. You, have already gone through them, now its time to live up with point 1 above.

5) Do not make the choice of making yourself angry at any point of time on your partner. Its useless. If you did become angry out of impulse, go ahead and ask for forgiveness shamelessly. You owe it big time, so dont worry about losing your individuality, it doesnt exist without your partner anyways.

6) Understand that the only person in the world who still allows you to be alone is your partner so have immense respect for him/her because of that.

7) Abstain from sex for breif periods of times. It enhances your relationship and makes you feel the need. Do not make sex casual even if its freely available to you without effort due to marraige. Have a reason, a good one to indulge in it and see what difference this makes to your physical and mental well being.

Hope these points stimulate you as much as they do to me daily.

Make marraige a working successful tool, for your spiritual growth. This is not advice its the truth.

Let me know your thoughts as well. I aint the only one married around here dudes and gals. :) !!!