I grew up in a family where my parents were always fighting. I was
put in the care of a neurotic wet nurse who would scare me to keep me
from crying. I grew up extremely nervous, shy and depressed. From
very early on I became obsessed with trying to figure out why I was
so shy and nervous. While I was in 4th grade I won the art prize in
my class. On the prize distribution day I had to go to the stage to
get my prize from the Governor. I was terrified. When I went to the
stage I could not look him in the eye and I kept looking at my
classmates. The whole gathering was bursting with laughter. I almost
forgot even to take the cup from the Governor and he had to hold me to
hand it over. I was crushed. Till the time I came back and sat in my
chair they were still laughing. My classmate’s father was sitting
next to me. I over heard him tell his daughter that I was a
schizophrenic. I confronted him and asked him why he called me
something that I felt was an insult. My classmate said that every one
was laughing because I was lost on the stage, was walking off without
getting the cup. Was not paying attention to the chief guest and my
fly was open. The father said to me not to worry about anything. He
said that I stole the show. I was the only pleasant part of a very
drab evening. I came home and looked up schizophrenia. I was crest
fallen.. I couldn’t sleep. My whole life became an obsession to find
out every thing there was to know about schizophrenia and how to get
out of it. I was a very talented swimmer and was also good at
badminton. I gave up everything. I even lost interest in studies. All
I did was study the human mind, psychology and human nature. I
discovered that schizophrenia starts in the fetus stage due to
negative conscious feed back. So I reasoned that if negative feelings
have an impact on the brain then positive feelings must also have an
impact on the brain. I finally developed a hypothesis that explains
the cause of human nature! My patented hypothesis has dozens of
practical application in the mind sciences. I have developed my own
route to self mastery. I have a scientific definition of the self,
wisdom etc. Moral values can be based on pure science. I have created
The Wisdom Express. You can look it up on BarackObama.com. I need to
get my work out there. I am willing to share my hundreds of pages of
notes with those who want to help humanity by making each person
know, understand and become his/her true self. I don’t want money. I
don’t want fame. I want the whole world to become one family. I know
wisdom is acquired through experience and often acquired through
correct upbringing. It can also be acquired through learning. Just
like one becomes a doctor or lawyer one can become a wise person.
Imagine a whole nation with people and the leaders who are wise. It
is possible if I can get enough people who are willing to be trained
to become wise. The ticket will be that each person will have to
teach 10 other people.
Here is something that I have not shared with anyone. Right around
dusk once every few months while I was lying down I would have a kind
of a fit. My head would fill up with a buzzing sound. I would feel
terrified unable to open my eyes or move my body. It lasted a minute
or so. I was constantly worried what if this happened while I was
standing but it never did. As I gained insight into the human mind I
realized what if this happened again and I just observed myself while
this was happening. The next time it happened I observed myself.
Gradually the buzzing sound gave way to a clear voice saying ‘chup,
chup, chup…(Hindi for shut up). I realized that this voice and
terror was stuck in my head courtesy of my nurse. Once I was able to
know where the buzzing fit was coming from I was able to induce the
fit at will by lying down and recreating my wet nurse shouting at me
to shut up (in my mind she was such a huge giant.). After a few
times this problem vanished. How many unfortunate people out there
are still struggling with these voices in their heads unknown to
them. O how I would love to help them!
Also every few months, for as long as I can remember I would suddenly
shiver with terror at the fact that I was alive and a separate entity.
I also have a lot of research topics for others. What can I say? Now
I am satisfied with my life. I have a small antique lighting shop on
59 Street in NYC though I would rather be writing books to guide
others through the mind minefields that I have successfully crossed
and understood. The following is my basic patented hypothesis.
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I have been researching human nature for the last 35 years. I was
researching schizophrenia and I found that just as children exposed
to an unhealthy upbringing grow up neurotic, fetuses
that encounter pain in the womb are prone to develop schizophrenia. I
reasoned that if negative experiences in the womb have a negative
impact on the mind then positive experiences must also have an impact
on the human mind. Thus I created a hypothesis that explains the
cause of human nature. This hypothesis has countless practical
applications for the mind sciences including education. One of the
main applications is that basic human nature is learned and not
innate and as anything that is learned can be unlearned I have
created a whole new subject that teaches human nature mastery. As
human nature is mostly mind nature my subject also teaches mind
mastery. Another practical application is that I have quantified the
mind. Thus all human actions and all human emotions are also
quantified. I have divided the mind development into four basic
stages as follows:
1) Premature mind of a new born child quantified with a value of negative 2.
2) Immature mind of a teenager quantified with a value of negative 1.
3) Mature mind of an adult quantified with a value of positive 1.
4) Super mature mind of a master quantified with a value of positive
2.
Quantifying the mind means that every human activity is now
quantified. Take the example of war and peace. War is a premature
activity having a value of-2. State of war is an immature activity
having a value of-i. Truce is a mature activity having a value of +1.
Peace is a super mature activity having a value of +2. In order to
achieve +2 results one must start with +2 ingredients especially if
the supply of -2 ingredients on both sides is unlimited.. Take the
example of World War 1 and 11. The first war defeated Germany with -2
ingredients. The -2 ingredients resulted in another -2 World War 11.
Only the +2 Marshal Plan created the current +2 relations between the
warring factions. There are many applications even in philosophy and
sociology:
a) Do good because it is the super mature thing to do. Do not commit
murder because it is the premature thing to do. Thus moral values can
be quantified and based on pure science.
b) The aim of education becomes crystal clear. To teach formal
education to create doctors, engineers and scientists etc. and
another compulsory subject that teaches everyone to become a +2 self
master.
c) As there are four levels of the mind there are four levels of
people in every society and four levels of countries. Those that are
at the lower level can be shown why they are at this level and how
they can be educated to the +2 level. Thus groups and even countries
can be taught self mastery. Laws, policies and priorities can all be
graded and replaced with +2 activities.
With a +2 mind even ordinary dead end situations become opportunities
for over coming failures. I can go on and on with practical
applications. I even have new topics for further research. I have
designed a wholly new subject based on a deep understanding of human
nature. While there are many roads to self mastery my work enables
one to master the mind by way of mastering ones own human nature thus
creating one brand new road to self mastery. Please let me know if
you are interested in a detailed proposal. Please also be free to ask
any question you may have. I am yours truly, Sajid Ali Khan,
Founder/President,
The 4th R Foundation, Inc.,
233 E., 59 St., NY NY
10022, 212 421 4848,
Email-info@selfmasteryclub.comThanks to knol I now have over 400+ knols explaining my hypothesis and many of its practical applications. You can google 'wisdom by Sajid Khan' to read my ideas. Here is a sample knol:
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Wisdom = self mastery = super mature emotional intelligence = spiritual self.
Am I even qualified to write about this? My own life has been a torturous journey of an unhealthy upbringing in which my brain has been roasted with emotional pain. I grew up extremely nervous, shy and depressed. Often I felt terrified of being alone facing life. I often wondered why I was like this. So I thought may be my purpose in life is to observe my own emotions and the more I observed my feelings the less severe they became. I finally realized that my brain was stuck with emotional garbage. The more I took this garbage out the more confident and happy I became. Having got rid of my emotional problems I still realized that I was greedy and at times unjustifiably over confident. So I started pondering on why I had these bad streaks in me. I realized that there was more garbage in my brain. So I started working on it again.
I soon realized for myself that there are stages of brain development and the brain develops physically from the fetus stage to the master stage. And it is the physical quality of the brain that determines even the emotional quality of the brain and this physical stage is partly created by the emotional environment in which the brain develops. And I found that most human brains stop short of emotionally developing to the highest stage.
As a child I went to a Catholic boarding school. Every Sunday I went to bible school. I became interested in the teachings of Moses and Jesus. Then I met this teacher who introduced me to the Buddha. I discovered that they were all self masters. I read somewhere that the common quality in all of them was wisdom. They were all wise. I made a list of the qualities of a self master. I formed a chart comparing the attributes of wisdom and the traits of self masters; they turned out exactly the same.
Then lo and behold I found for myself that the attributes of an emotionally super mature person are also the same as a self master's. Thus wisdom = self mastery = super mature emotional intelligence. They are one and the same entity. Thanks to pioneers like Dr. Goleberg we now know emotional intelligence as defined within the paradigm of science. So as we know emotional intelligence we know wisdom and self mastery. The only problem here is that the self is even today couched in mystery.
What is this self? Is it immortal? Is it the same in all of us? Is it divine? These are questions that are outside the paradigm of science but I can say that the qualities of the divine self and the self of a self master are exactly the same! They are both humble and selfless and sacrificing etc. No wonder since time immemorial man has been trying to create self masters; man has been trying to create wise human beings. And as wisdom = super mature emotional intelligence, to create self masters we need to create super mature emotionally intelligence human beings. The qualities of a divine self apart from it being immortal are the same as that of a super normal self.
Thus to achieve the divine qualities of the human self all we need to do is to develop the self to the super mature emotionally intelligent brain level.
The human self is a product of a process. A process that takes place in the brain. The quality of this process determines the quality/shape of the self. As there are broadly four levels of the brain stages there are four levels of the self; from premature to immature to mature to super mature. As the aim is to make each human self super mature we will have to take steps to create education that will turn each brain into a super mature emotionally intelligent brain.
Instead of worrying on whether the self is immortal or not we must focus on how to make the self have the same divine qualities as long as the self is alive. And this is possible within the paradigm of science!
Also as there is much confusion about the brain and mind please note the following:
The brain and mind are two separate though inter dependent entities. Where the brain is the projector and the mind is the image. The difference between the brain projector and the regular film projector is that the brain projector projects a 'live' self conscious mind. Its like the film being projected has not just images but self conscious images that are aware of their own self and are aware of the context of their surroundings; as well as they can look back at the projector. The mind is the true 'I', the 'me' of each individual. However for most people the 'I' is cloaked by the self image. As a result for most individuals the self image is the mind. The self image is projected by a polluted brain. The more pure the brain, the closer to the real self the person is. Please understand that it is the brain process that creates the 'I' - the mind. We are a projection of the brain. Our physical and emotional quality is determined by the physical and emotional quality of our brain.