We live in the world full of chemicals and toxins. Unless you are a lucky human living far away from urban and industrial areas, your body is constantly exposed to a multitude of elements that aren’t very good for your body, mind, and — who knows? — maybe even your soul (if you believe it exists).

Besides toxic food, air, water, buildings, furniture, clothes, toys, electric devices, and various substances, there are other phenomena that can affect human beings in many undesirable ways. I am talking about waves, radiation, magnetic field, electrical currents, and other things that happen around us while we are physically present in this world saturated with technology that is supposed to simplify our lives.

The truth is, urban and high-tech environment isn’t natural. Science and technology have developed in the past 100+ years to the point where we are now and continue to develop at crazy speeds.

But what about our bodies?

According to some widespread scientific theories, it took human beings thousands of years to develop into what we are now. It takes mere months for the developers to come up with a new smartphone, 5G towers can be built just as fast… But can our bodies adjust at the same speed? What about all these chemicals and artificial ingredients in our foods? They started making all this stuff in the past several decades. Before that, humans didn’t consume it in such amounts. Can our DNA, our brain, our organs change themselves in a matter of days to be in tune with all this techno and industrial craziness?

I think not.

Some say, “I am a natural lifestyle enthusiast.” To tell you the truth, even the world lifestyle itself makes me cringe because “style” is something made up, artificial. It’s a part of this system of specific arrangements, social roles, and visual and cultural representations in which we all live. I don’t want to have a style (and I’ve been wondering if it’s possible at all when I live in a large group of other human beings). I want to have LIFE. I am a life enthusiast, the one who wants to live her life as freely and naturally as possible, and I am talking about freedom that goes beyond this clutter of stuff we all live in.

And here is my question: how can a person live his or her life naturally and freely when the entire system in which we live constantly takes us as far away as possible from a natural way of living while also taking away our freedom, our health, our determination, our energy, and even our understanding that something here is SERIOUSLY FLAWED?

I don’t want this to turn into another conspiracy theory post. Not because I have something against conspiracy theories (every single one of which has to be carefully studied, examined, and seen in practice in order to be taken seriously), but because it’s not a theory. It’s our reality right here, right now. It’s exactly what’s going on, it’s what we all live in.

We are little beings caught up inside a very well developed, very elaborate system of information, technology, science, medicine, so-called “spiritual beliefs”, habits, cravings, needs, goals, systems of thought, life purposes, and other highly functional establishments and processes, and guess what? Most of human beings who are BORN INTO this highly functional conglomeration of stuff don’t have any real say in it. If you think it’s not true, if you are longing to disagree, answer this: how many of your beliefs, habits, thoughts, goals, ideas about life, cravings, desires, hates, wants, emotions, reactions (and I could make this list much, much longer) truly yours?

If you make a real attempt to think deeply about this, you will get scared. I can almost guarantee that if anyone thinks deeply about this, thinks for real (not how we are taught to think), they will be horrified. The world we live in makes a really good effort to numb people by saturating their minds and bodies with tons of impressions, emotions, and sensations. When you are numb, there is a very little chance that something will get through and truly bother you.

I think that even many of today’s views and ideas of “self-development’ are flawed. One thing that I was shown once by my teacher impressed and shocked me deeply. He has shown me that even in various systems of “self-development” people develop mostly the world (system) that surrounds them, and not themselves. Social systems develop, urban environments develop, science and technology develop, education develops… but every single human being in this conglomeration of things and systems seems to be left behind. People’s minds and thinking patterns develop in accordance with the fast-paced world saturated with information, goals, action, pleasures, but the power of human mind gets more and more dormant, and if we speak of the physical body and health… Well, who needs strong, flexible, healthy bodies that can live for more than a hundred years if we have all these lovely technological and medical developments that cost a fortune? They HAVE TO BE USED on someone, right? All these technological and medical improvements have to have a growing crowd of consumers who will depend on them or die. Why should anyone want to develop to be strong and healthy when we have all these pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and corporations who need to be paid?

Think about this: technology and science develop at a lightning speed, but we — living organisms and dormant minds —simply can’t catch up. And you know what? I don’t think it’s something that just happens naturally. I think that this is happening on purpose because no one up there needs this world to be filled with millions of free, strong, and healthy individuals who can think and act for themselves. If such a thing happened, our supposed need for many things and entities would cease to exist.