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God Proscribed
By YM Sarma
Abstract
This essay explores the severance of modern civilization from its primordial communion with nature, where the air itself once served as the medium of spiritual and sensory guidance. It argues that the rise of techno-mechanical logic and Cartesian paradigms has proscribed Theism—not merely as a theological construct, but as a living, breathing relationship with the natural world. The essay calls for the re-establishment of unspoiled natural spaces as living classrooms to restore direct perception, ecological balance, and sacred connection.
Introduction
The basic urge of every life form is to communicate. Organisms perceive and understand the world through hearing, smelling, seeing, touching, and eating. They express their perceptions and understandings by exhaling—through breath, sound, or physical action.
There was a time in evolution when the human organism relied entirely on these sensory modes—particularly on smelling, sensing, and exhaling—to engage with its surroundings. Every living being inhaled the exhaled messages of others and responded in kind. The biosphere functioned almost as a single, breathing organism, with the troposphere acting as a shared communicative medium.
The Troposphere and the Birth of Theism
This early form of exchange was not just ecological; it was spiritual. It formed the first paradigm of perception and guidance, the seed of what later evolved into the concept of God. In those times, air itself served as the flow of Theism—a living, breathing field of knowledge, wisdom, and presence.
Even after the emergence of the cerebral cortex—alongside the development of reason and abstract thought—human beings continued to seek guidance through inhaling, smelling, and sensing. Theism remained a living component of the air. To smell correctly, to sense truthfully, was to learn and practice the lessons of life. This was direct learning from nature.
Even today, despite the continual destruction of nature in the name of economic development, people retreat into natural spaces seeking psychological and spiritual healing. But paradoxically, we participate in the destruction of the very source we rely on for that healing. In this way, Theism is being eliminated from the air—and from life itself.
Cartesian Logic and the Mechanization of Knowledge
Every subject taught in modern universities now follows the mechanical paradigm of René Descartes. In these institutions, terms like God, superstition, prejudice, and folly are often used interchangeably—dismissed as irrelevant to serious inquiry. A field gains academic respectability only when its principles are subjected to mathematical reduction and technological validation.
Editors and scholars strive for precision according to the rules of machines, not nature. Techno-logic—the logic of machines—has become the only accepted form of reasoning. In this process, God is proscribed not by law, but by epistemology.
No student today is encouraged to learn through direct sensory engagement with nature. A student who attempts to read from the forest, from wind and water rather than textbooks and screens, will likely fail. No university offers a course in which nature itself is the teacher. Direct perception has been exiled.
The Loss of Direct Communion
The basic human urge to communicate one’s personal perceptions and insights—gained from contact with the natural world—must now be filtered, translated, and edited through machines. We no longer breathe the divine; we now encode, digitize, and transmit it.
Yet nature cannot be understood this way, and in any case, nature itself is on life support. God and Theism have been expelled not only from institutional learning, but from the very air.
There is no place left in modern education to engage with nature through smelling, sensing, and intuiting. The rejection of such learning is treated with the highest intellectual respectability, even though such rejection amounts to a profound alienation—a collective madness.
And thanks to this madness, nature may respond with a remedial backlash. The biosphere may soon act to restore its own balance—without waiting for human permission.
A Way Forward: Free Nature Parks
The first and most vital step every university—and society—must take is to establish Free Nature Parks. These must be untouched, unengineered, and uncommercialized. Let nature exist there freely, as teacher, guide, and healer. Let students breathe unedited air and learn not from diagrams but from direct presence.
Today, if someone claims they have learned something directly from nature, the rationalist or "Mr. Atheist" will pounce—calling them delusional, demanding technological proof. But some truths cannot be proven in digital code. They are breathed, felt, and lived.
Until we allow the air once again to carry meaning, direction, and Theism, we will remain alienated from both the world and ourselves.
Conclusion
Modern civilization has not merely forgotten God—it has proscribed God. Not in the name of reason, but in service to a limited and mechanistic form of reason that denies the deeper ways of knowing. We have exiled nature as a teacher, dismissed the sacred as superstition, and traded breath for bandwidth.
Yet the wind still whispers. The earth still speaks. And Theism—true, living Theism—awaits its return in the unpolluted air of undisturbed nature.
Let us restore it—not through ideology, but through listening.
Let the air speak again.
Let nature teach again.
Let God be un-proscribed.
Author Bio
YM Sarma is an independent thinker, nature observer, and philosophical essayist. At 88 years old, he continues to reflect deeply on the intersections of ecology, spirituality, and human knowledge systems. His writings critique the techno-mechanistic worldview and call for a return to sacred relationship with the natural world.
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