Dear beloved reader,
Small protein-like molecules are used by neurons. Let’s now use the age-old tool of personification. Rashmi is the name of one neuron and Lord of the Rings is the name of another. Rashmi uses those small protein-like molecules to communicate with Lord of the Rings. Lord of the Rings uses those molecules too. Rashmi gets to know a great deal about her best friend (a neuron called Sonia) as she communicates with Lord of the Rings. Rashmi also gets to know about how she is the protagonist of her life and all the journeys that await her.
Tell us dear reader, why do you talk? Besides getting things done, getting a good job, getting food, getting entertainment, is there something more to ‘talk’?
Let us quote Rumi here dear reader,
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.
Tell us dear reader, would you talk about the world there? But then, would you stop talking? Does talking only happen through words forming from the vibrations of the vocal chords and movements of lips?
Dear reader, talking also happens through those protein-like molecules in neurons. Those are called Oxytocin (a.k.a. The love hormone). What Rashmi felt while talking to Lord of the Rings, what your mother felt when she held you in her arms, you can hold oxytocin responsible.
Well for us, we do the noble work of attempting to share a lot of oxytocin released elsewhere while creating something beautiful to release a lot of oxytocin for consuming all that is beautiful.
For the love of art dear reader, here is Mehfil issue #8.
(Please click on the pieces listed below to read them. Consider this as the ‘Contents’ page of your regular offline magazine. Come back to this page, click on the next link to read the next piece.)
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