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Hossam Badrawi, a prominent physician and politician and former head of the OB\/GYN department at Cairo University\u2019s Medical School, delves into consciousness and self-reflection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This is a dialogue with the self \u2014 a question that may prompt anyone reading this article to turn inward, to understand themselves more deeply, to connect scattered thoughts into coherent meaning, and to paint a more complete picture of who they are.<\/p>\n

Nothing arises from nothing. Every event in our personal and collective history leaves its mark on who we are, why we are the person we\u2019ve become, and how our awareness of our immediate and global society was shaped. And, as knowledge expands, perhaps even your awareness of parallel universes comes into play.<\/p>\n

You are a collection of values, ideas and behaviours that, together with your surroundings, form your mental self-image.<\/p>\n

Consciousness is a mental state through which we perceive reality and the truths unfolding around us. It is born of our interaction with the environment. It matures gradually through the senses\u2014gateways that deliver information to the mind, where it is interpreted, organized, and understood.<\/p>\n

However, consciousness can also be partial when thoughts and perceptions are confined to a single aspect, failing to encompass the many interconnected dimensions that constantly influence one another in the evolution of life.<\/p>\n

Our consciousness shapes our present and future, and our collective consciousness can shape the fate of humanity as a whole.<\/p>\n

For example, I have long recognized the importance of education, knowledge, and healthcare for citizens. Over time, with accumulated experience and deeper reflection, I redefined them not as services but as fundamental rights. This transformation in perspective \u2014 a renewal of consciousness \u2014 led me to advocate for a system where access to these rights depends not on one\u2019s ability to pay but on society\u2019s collective capacity to guarantee them to every child and young person under all circumstances.<\/p>\n

I believe every reader must understand both their own psychological makeup and that of their audience. Do their ideas and values form a coherent fabric? And if so, on what foundations does that coherence rest? A friend once asked me:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy? What led you to engage in dialogues with young dreamers? How did your passion grow, and your unwavering belief in the creativity and innovation of youth persist, even amid a society that often seems blind to these possibilities?\u201d<\/p>\n

I hadn\u2019t attempted to articulate an answer until young people began asking these questions. Thus, this article may explain the motivations behind our society’s individual and collective consciousness \u2014 and the forces that shape our political, cultural, and intellectual realities.<\/p>\n

We must recognize that when an idea\u2019s time has come, it becomes a force of its own. A conscious mind can respect an idea even without fully embracing it.<\/p>\n

As Abbas Al-Aqqad once said:
\n\u201cWhen we attach ideas to individuals, we deny ourselves valuable insights if they come from adversaries, and we fall into foolish ones merely because they come from friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

History teaches us that those who introduce new ideas may initially be considered criminals within rigid cultural systems \u2014 until those ideas succeed and gain countless champions.<\/p>\n

Ibn Rushd (Averroes) reminds us:
\n\u201cIdeas have wings. You cannot stop them from spreading \u2014 even if you burn the books that contain them or kill their authors.\u201d<\/p>\n

I may disagree with an idea, but I do not oppose the thinker. Galileo\u2019s words resonate deeply with me:
\n\u201cAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered. The point is to discover them.\u201d<\/p>\n

People may die, nations may rise or fall, but ideas endure. They do not expire as long as they challenge prevailing dogmas \u2014 the comfortable certainties that the masses embrace as part of their collective identity.<\/p>\n

We must understand that ideas acquire power when they capture the hearts of the masses \u2014 or when others impose them persistently, embedding them into the collective psyche until they are accepted as self-evident truths.<\/p>\n

In the modern world, entire sciences have emerged dedicated to this craft: creating false narratives that spread widely despite lacking any real foundation. Looking at the world today, my deepest fear is the manipulation of our consciousness and thoughts. We are witnessing how consciousness can be manufactured by those who possess the tools to create what is not real, presenting it as an undeniable truth in the minds of entire nations \u2014 intimidating and silencing anyone who dares to question or think differently.<\/p>\n

This is the manufacture of fabricated consciousness. Once it stabilizes and is reinforced repeatedly, people start to believe it\u2014even sacrificing their comfort and, ultimately, their lives for a cause that was artificially constructed and then integrated into their collective consciousness.<\/p>\n

Consider the war between Russia and Ukraine. Consider Israel\u2019s war and its intent to annihilate the Palestinian people. Consider the conflict between Israel and Iran. Look back to the US invasion of Iraq or the rise of authoritarian regimes like Syria\u2019s \u2014 all supported by the West with its glaringly racist double standards and deeply hypocritical stances.<\/p>\n

These events reveal a chilling truth: European and American governments are far more extreme and inhumane than many of us once believed\u2014lacking credibility not only today but historically and very likely in the future.<\/p>\n

The dynamic between humans and their awareness of global events often rests on political narratives that manufacture false consciousness \u2014 transforming friends into enemies and perpetrators into victims. After two generations of engineered collective consciousness, many truths are lost. We live in an artificial reality crafted by those who control the tools, write the scripts, and dominate the media and social networks.<\/p>\n

It is the puppet theatre of consciousness, orchestrated by those who pull the strings, telling the story of their existence on this stage.<\/p>\n

The ultimate question remains:
\nDo you know who you are? Do I know who I am? Are we simply puppets on the stage of life \u2014 personally, nationally, and globally \u2014 or will we one day seize the strings ourselves?<\/p>\n

The answer lies in science \u2014 clearly defining the values we seek\u2014and embracing humanism as we confront the soulless march of digital technologies. Without careful guidance, science can be used to create artificial consciousness that becomes a widely accepted reality \u2014 a reality that no longer even requires proof.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. Dr. Hossam supported the Tamarod movement in its beginning and he declared that toppling the Brotherhood was a must and a pressing risk that had to be taken few months prior to the June 30 revolution and confirmed that the army would support the legitimacy given by the people","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hossambadrawi\/","https:\/\/x.com\/HossamBadrawi"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12653,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651\/revisions\/12653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}