You might think that I am slowly moving away from the problems of mind control victims to other things, going by my recent posts. But let me tell you, all that I have written have reference to this phenomenon in one way or other. To me all forms of control are repulsive. I react to them strongly. But this is not an approval of anarchy, both on the individual level or on the social level. Ours has been the best known social /political structure the world has ever devised, if it is allowed to operate in its intended way. Democracy even in the form it is practiced now has several advantages over other systems of government. But there have always been people, elected or otherwise bent upon making a farce of it. They still labor under the sub conscious urge to dominate, fashion and correct the world, forgetting that their position, tools of analysis etc are the gifts of the same system they are trying to subvert.
To me it has always been stupefying how people are so little concerned about their own future as well as the future of the world they are living in. This is not an effort to hold on to the current system by whatever means that would be nonsensical. But any system replacing it should take our efforts to better our lot further into the future rather than diminishing it or trying to erase it altogether. This is what is happening in the world at present. Certain “wise” people are trying to take it on themselves to decide the fate of the world and all those in it with no qualifications for the job other than their own mistaken or wicked belief in their importance.
Our educational system has not been the best in the world, but it does allow the minimum level of competence to the individuals to come up with an idea about life. Every where in the world this system is being changed. A new system with an accent on interacting with people rather than learning the basics is being emphasized upon. Learning the skills to live is not what education is all about. This the individual obtains through interaction with the society as they grow up. Why has the accent in education shifted from that of learning the basics to that of collecting information? Well I agree that the children need be familiar with working on projects and conducting seminars. But these skills are not of at most importance, they can be acquired even without the interference of the teachers. What is happening is a shift in policy. This is subtle and not easily observable. Society the world over has reached a stage where to be literate is a necessity that is how you learn to obey the laws! You would not be allowed to take it any further. All sorts of social activity like conducting seminars, taking up a project, collecting information and statistics, conducting surveys are all tools to control people and the environment they live in.
This goes much further than milieu control. It is an effort at total control, through all avenues of life. On the surface it appears that students are being prompted to get in touch with reality and to ask questions and find answers. But actually they are being conditioned to be good soldiers of an evolving system of global masters and slaves. They are being trained to be used against themselves in essence. When the accent shifts from learning the basics to collecting data the whole concept of education is subverted. Yet can any one complain? The basics are still provided in the texts. There is nothing to complain of!
Strange are times we live in. Every source of information is controlled. That which reaches us is corrupted by the wicked to suit their interests. Every aspect of our lives is being controlled, overtly and covertly. Technology which should have been assisting people to evolve is being used to contain them and control what they see and think. The human individuals are being divested of their in alienable right to be independent and free, to seek the meaning of life. Instead they are being provided with a patented version of reality. They are being consistently told that this is the one reality that exists and to be aware of. They are not allowed to think that the reality is subjective and is the result of an individual’s free understanding of life. This is what is so bizarre of this phase of our civilization, those who control information have become the masters and those who receive it have to be the slaves. With invasive tools of mind control any individual could be totally controlled. We are living in the times of mass mind control. All governments are involved in this subversion of our freedom. They are doing it knowingly. It seems as if all ideological differences have been solved among the powerful and they are operating with one target in mind, that of curbing the right to question them.
The times are confusing. I know that confusion is bad, but it is much better than being made to think that everything is alright with the world. Confusion is also a sign that something is not right somewhere. We need to put this something right, but how? What can a single individual do against such odds, against the all pervasive mind control, against the instruments of internal torture?
Well the answer is simple; spread the word that this is happening. As they say, walk the walk (or think the thoughts). This might not bring in a change immediately, this heinous activity of controlling masses has been going on for some time now, and it is not going to change that easily. But talk the talk and think the thoughts, be aware of the situation, be not be deceived into believing that everything is as it should be in the world, they are not, and your complacency is responsible for it as is anything else.
Even when they are trying to control our thoughts I say think the thoughts!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Kamasutra of Yoga
Hatha Yoga is more practiced in the west than even in India. This is true about most of the higher practices of Yoga too, if what one sees over the net is to be taken seriously. This is a very heartening development because in the land of its origin Yoga is pretty soon going to be extinct. There are no efforts to make it a part of the educational curriculum, as should have been done long ago. Some yuppies practice it if they are forced by their bosses, and some do it to lessen the tensions of life. I do not think any one is taking it very seriously. If those in power had the barest minimum imagination they would have understood by now that such disciplines would not survive this long without having something going for them.
Well, let us leave it at that. Hatha Yoga really developed as a reaction to external domination of the land, and is basically a practice to gain unbelievable mental and physical abilities. But it has also some ludicrous aspects to it. One such is the practice of Vajroli Mudra.
I know that the Mudra is taught (if it is ever taught at all) as an exercise to gain control over the “nether “regions of the body. But actually it has a weird aspect to it. The practice consists of dipping your penis in bowl containing milk and drawing some of it into you with it. Not an easy thing to do by any means. When I had my first introduction to Yoga I had read every text on the subject available in the land at that time. A text like Gheeranda Samhita wisely keeps mum on this practice. I think Hatha Yoga Pradeepika contains some reference to the actual practice. You may refer to Advice 3-83, 84, 85, and 86 of the text if you can get hold of a copy. I could not stop laughing for days thinking about the practice as described in it.
In the notes to the Advice it is given thus:
“I will now tell you about two of the rare things you should obtain to practice this Mudra. One is milk and the other is a faithful woman. Be it man or woman, once they stop the discharge of Bindhu (Seminal fluid in the case of man, and any such secretion in woman) and practice constriction of certain bodily parts steadily for some time they will obtain this Mudra. By placing a glass pipe to the opening of the male/female organ you should blow through it like you do when lighting a fire. This is to ensure air circulation inside the opening.”(Forgive my poor translation. It is actually weirder and funnier than this)
Then again in Advice 3-87 it is enjoined that, with effort, the seminal fluid which gets inside the vagina of the woman should be fully absorbed back into the body of the practitioner. It is said that the practitioners of Vajroli could sort of vacuum clean the fluids insides the vagina giving a woman extreme pleasure. No wonder many young guys are after such “Sidhis” (powers) and ruin their lives by practicing it.
One great opponent to this technique (as well as all the techniques of Hatha Yoga) has described of an encounter with a practitioner of this Mudra.
He asked the Young man
“How long have you been practicing this technique?”
“About Ten years.” The other replied
“….And the gain?”
‘Well, I can draw water into the penis through a thin pipe”
I would rather not relate the reaction of this venerable gentleman to that statement. But to tell you the truth, before seeing this account I did not think the practice was even possible. And in fact, even after reading this report I had remained skeptical about it. The guy could be telling a lie, you know, though the description did not sound like it.
But then there was this instance I came across. It comes from a book written by late Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati who is also well known in the west. He once had to work as the Director of Psychic Research Institute at Delhi by the invitation of the then home minister of India Mr. Gulsarilal Nanda. The institute conducted a scientific study on the Yogis they could find. One of them was a yogi called Varabh Yogi. He was so called because he could sit cross legged on a “block of ice” (“Varabh” in Hindi) in the nude for hours at a stretch without even flinching.
He exhibited the technique of “Vajroli” before a distinguished audience of experts at the Psychic Research Institute at Delhi. He first drew in one ounce of milk through his penis into his body and then forced it out in the like manner. He also demonstrated the “Kurma Mudra” before them. This consists of drawing in the entire genitalia (is the usage correct, I do not know. But you can guess the meaning from it I hope?) inwards into the body. When it finally disappeared into the body the place where the penis looked similar to that of a female sex organ.
Yati states that this Yogi was boastful and was thirsty for worthless praise. He was ever praising his own greatness. Yati felt his outlook on life and value system was anything but desirable and concluded that to attain the complete control over mind and become a real Yogin one need to raise much above the practice of such techniques.
I could not agree more. But I was educated in modern India with its strong accent on the western moral code and its frightening inhibitions. It is not my desire to discredit Yoga ( Even Hatha Yoga ) for some of its weird practices. In fact the earlier- Indians had always shown a healthy interest in sex and have even devised a method to attain the highest truth with the help of it. It is known as Vama Tantra. It is also considered a form of Yoga. The ancients in the land never had any inhibitions about sex and took it as the most natural experience in the world. Well this is the land which considered Vatsyayana (the Author of Kamasutra) as a rishi, a term generally reserved for those who attain the highest truth. This was not done in jest. They knew there were many roads to the same point.
Once a great sage was asked by his disciples:
“Could one find truth through such deplorable methods?’
He replied with a simile.
“You see, a house has many portals, the master of the house might enter through the front door, the women and children through some other doors, the servants through yet other s, and the scavenger also enters the house through a door. If you do not like it you need not go through that door”
The point is very clear is it not?
Well, let us leave it at that. Hatha Yoga really developed as a reaction to external domination of the land, and is basically a practice to gain unbelievable mental and physical abilities. But it has also some ludicrous aspects to it. One such is the practice of Vajroli Mudra.
I know that the Mudra is taught (if it is ever taught at all) as an exercise to gain control over the “nether “regions of the body. But actually it has a weird aspect to it. The practice consists of dipping your penis in bowl containing milk and drawing some of it into you with it. Not an easy thing to do by any means. When I had my first introduction to Yoga I had read every text on the subject available in the land at that time. A text like Gheeranda Samhita wisely keeps mum on this practice. I think Hatha Yoga Pradeepika contains some reference to the actual practice. You may refer to Advice 3-83, 84, 85, and 86 of the text if you can get hold of a copy. I could not stop laughing for days thinking about the practice as described in it.
In the notes to the Advice it is given thus:
“I will now tell you about two of the rare things you should obtain to practice this Mudra. One is milk and the other is a faithful woman. Be it man or woman, once they stop the discharge of Bindhu (Seminal fluid in the case of man, and any such secretion in woman) and practice constriction of certain bodily parts steadily for some time they will obtain this Mudra. By placing a glass pipe to the opening of the male/female organ you should blow through it like you do when lighting a fire. This is to ensure air circulation inside the opening.”(Forgive my poor translation. It is actually weirder and funnier than this)
Then again in Advice 3-87 it is enjoined that, with effort, the seminal fluid which gets inside the vagina of the woman should be fully absorbed back into the body of the practitioner. It is said that the practitioners of Vajroli could sort of vacuum clean the fluids insides the vagina giving a woman extreme pleasure. No wonder many young guys are after such “Sidhis” (powers) and ruin their lives by practicing it.
One great opponent to this technique (as well as all the techniques of Hatha Yoga) has described of an encounter with a practitioner of this Mudra.
He asked the Young man
“How long have you been practicing this technique?”
“About Ten years.” The other replied
“….And the gain?”
‘Well, I can draw water into the penis through a thin pipe”
I would rather not relate the reaction of this venerable gentleman to that statement. But to tell you the truth, before seeing this account I did not think the practice was even possible. And in fact, even after reading this report I had remained skeptical about it. The guy could be telling a lie, you know, though the description did not sound like it.
But then there was this instance I came across. It comes from a book written by late Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati who is also well known in the west. He once had to work as the Director of Psychic Research Institute at Delhi by the invitation of the then home minister of India Mr. Gulsarilal Nanda. The institute conducted a scientific study on the Yogis they could find. One of them was a yogi called Varabh Yogi. He was so called because he could sit cross legged on a “block of ice” (“Varabh” in Hindi) in the nude for hours at a stretch without even flinching.
He exhibited the technique of “Vajroli” before a distinguished audience of experts at the Psychic Research Institute at Delhi. He first drew in one ounce of milk through his penis into his body and then forced it out in the like manner. He also demonstrated the “Kurma Mudra” before them. This consists of drawing in the entire genitalia (is the usage correct, I do not know. But you can guess the meaning from it I hope?) inwards into the body. When it finally disappeared into the body the place where the penis looked similar to that of a female sex organ.
Yati states that this Yogi was boastful and was thirsty for worthless praise. He was ever praising his own greatness. Yati felt his outlook on life and value system was anything but desirable and concluded that to attain the complete control over mind and become a real Yogin one need to raise much above the practice of such techniques.
I could not agree more. But I was educated in modern India with its strong accent on the western moral code and its frightening inhibitions. It is not my desire to discredit Yoga ( Even Hatha Yoga ) for some of its weird practices. In fact the earlier- Indians had always shown a healthy interest in sex and have even devised a method to attain the highest truth with the help of it. It is known as Vama Tantra. It is also considered a form of Yoga. The ancients in the land never had any inhibitions about sex and took it as the most natural experience in the world. Well this is the land which considered Vatsyayana (the Author of Kamasutra) as a rishi, a term generally reserved for those who attain the highest truth. This was not done in jest. They knew there were many roads to the same point.
Once a great sage was asked by his disciples:
“Could one find truth through such deplorable methods?’
He replied with a simile.
“You see, a house has many portals, the master of the house might enter through the front door, the women and children through some other doors, the servants through yet other s, and the scavenger also enters the house through a door. If you do not like it you need not go through that door”
The point is very clear is it not?
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The Metamorphosis
Let us be not like ostriches that hide their heads in the sand and think everything is okay in the world. No my friend nothing is okay anywhere. Every system is corrupt, every law is corrupt, every institution is corrupt. I know, I know the apologists of the system would come up with something like “Man this is the most we can do. This is the best we can do” Well they may be even right, but that does not mean that what they are doing is right. Take a hard look at the human history. What do you see? Did we pause and say that this is the best bloody system in the world and stay put. Well there were some such systems. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Indus people, the Mesopotamians, they all thought they were the finest civilization ever. They stopped evolving and you know what happened- they were replaced by intellectual minions. These new people were aggressive. They did not care a bit for the edifices of the older civilizations. They pulled them down ruthlessly. Greece was ransacked by the Romans. The Indus valley by the Aryans, the Egyptians by a lesser people. They failed because they refused to evolve with the times. Their culture had become like a stagnant pool. Once the pool was vast and clean. Hundred s of rivers had fed the pool and had kept it vibrant. But when it reached a point they refused to listen to the voices of the changing world. The world does not stay quite. It creates quite a din sometimes. This noise is the pain of giving birth. They needed to listen to it and change with it.
I am not trying to make you read Fukuyama (though it would be nice if you could do that). No I do not believe that our civilization has reached a saturation point. Far from it. It is at a transitional point. One horror is being replaced by another hideous structure. The capitalists are being replaced by the technocrats. But what about countries like China you say? Well my friend if Yunnan is any indication it is going the same way as the rest of the world. If you believe “One swallow does not make a summer” you can think again. The world has changed; we have almost made the swallows extinct. In these times one swallow is more than enough to predict a summer. It is going to the age of technocrats from now onwards. Let me quote from a comment on one of my earlier posts from “C”. I do not know who this gentleman/woman is. He/she was outl lining the current US domestic policy based on a book by Russell D. Howard (Colonel USA) and Reid L. Sawyer(captain USA) (written/copywrited in 2003 by McGraw- Hill/Dushkin
and is listed in the Library of Congress with Control Number 2002106286 as per the comment).
“page 543
> Business Versus Terror
>
> Only a new kind of alliance can win the war on terrorism. This
> alliance will not be one between nations nor will it be bounded by a
> treaty. Instead, it will be unconventional, involve millions of
> disparate actors, and be guided by rules that will be constantly
> rewritten. It will be an alliance of a motley army of horizontal
> partnerships, with a nontraditional leadership structure. Its best
> troops will be the regiments of geeks rather than the special
forces
> that struck the first blows against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
These
> pocket-protector brigades live on rations of cold pizza and coffee,
> not MRE's (the military ready to eat). They take orders not from
> generals or admirals but from markets and stockholders.
>
> Th members of this fighting force are scientists and doctors,
> venture capitalists and corporate project managers--the private-
> sector army that is the United States, not-so-secr4et- weapon and
> best hope. These unlikely warriors will provide the software,
> systems and analytical resources that will enable the United States
> to track terrorists. It is they who will develop the sensing
systems
> to detect biological, chemical and cyber threats. And it is they
who
> will perfect the biometric devices, such as retinal scanners or
thumb-
> print readers or facial-recognition technologies, that will be
> critical components of next-generation security systems and that
will
> close the gaps Mohammed Atta and his associates revealed.
>
> The Bush administration and terrorism experts know this group is
> critical. The enormous Pentagon aquisition apparatus has already
> begun to direct funds to new private-sector ventures that can
satisfy
> immediate and longer term tactical and strategic needs. Governor
Tom
> Ridge, director of the Office of Homeland Security, has taken the
> first steps toward institutionalizing the public-private
partnership
> that is absolutely critical to achieving US domestic defense goals.”
Though the central theme seems to be that of combating terrorism it provides an insight into the current thought structure of the US and of course the rest of the governments in the world on the direction things are going to take from now onwards. It is almost as if the governments are in the process of “withering away” as prophesied by Karl Marx (what an irony of fate!). Note that this alliance is formed exclusively between the executive and the technocrats mediated only by business interests. No system readily supports its own over throw. It fights to the end to hang on to its achievements. But that all seems to be in the past now. The current power structures are welcoming the change with relief.
This is because they have learnt their lesson from the past. They know if they fail to evolve they would be replaced, and they are evolving. The only thing is that this evolution has not taken the right path. It harbors ill will towards the people. It is the mutation of the already corrupt to the status of the absolute masters. We have never been at such a pass before. You can imagine what course it would take. Even now every single human being in the world is under constant surveillance. This is not fantasy. It is a fact. Any nation which has satellites in the orbits around the earth is capable of monitoring every single event that is happening below. There are rays which could penetrate thick walls and hundreds of feet underneath the earth’s surface. So our life is not privet any more. Our governments are either inept or corrupt. But yet they are the governments we put into place. Though they almost always act dumb when it comes to the question of human rights these are at least our own creations and represents us. The tools they have now are the property of the people and theoretically they can be controlled by us through democratic means. But once these tools are passed on to the hands of the privet sector or they start building more sophisticated tools to be used on the public it can not be controlled in any manner known to us. We are yet to find a business man concerned about the welfare of the general public.
This is the world that we are living in. This is our present reality. Some may call it even inevitable, but when business starts to look after the interests of the state, the whole concept of governance changes. It becomes based on the philosophy of profit and loss and not on welfare. Already such interests are visible in the world. The World Bank IMF and the ADB is seeing to that. Most of the poor countries are being told what to do inside their countries in no uncertain terms. The moment governments start to play to the tune of business interests (under whatever pretext) the basic principles on which the modern state is founded upon is eroded. This is not an unexpected phenomenon. All over the world governments have been slowly withdrawing from social welfare obligations.
But the danger is more threatening than even this scenario. As stated earlier The governments are trying to evolve. They are about to shed their shells and climb into a new one. This period of transition is their most vulnerable moment. Propaganda is not enough to assist them in this transition, mis- direction and mis/dis information is not going to be of much help. More subtle methods are needed. This is where they turn to tools of brain control; to me this is the back ground of mass mind control they are practicing. They want a submissive society which would permit this transition by ignoring it. The efforts are to numb the brain on the one end and to flood it with useless information on the other end. Those that oppose would be termed as subversives. In fact in the modern state every honest citizen is a potential threat. If you believe in liberty, freedom, equality and the like you become a persona -non -grata to the establishment. If you ask questions you are a trouble maker.
But if you are glued to the TV and gulps down everything that the media dishes out to you and are satisfied with things in general you are left alone, but mind you, you are still under surveillance, whether you like it or not. Some you might think that things could not be as bad as that. Well try this if you want to find out. Get on a bench, a box or any some place elevated and say a few things about how things are in the world, say that you hate war or how unemployment is on the rise in your country, or how the prices are going up. You live in a free country don’t you? You have rights to express yourself, it goes without saying? If you think these are simple things and you have the rights to say it, try and find out. I would not advise it though!
I am afraid that we are witnessing the metamorphosis of the modern state into a business venture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Fukuyama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man
I am not trying to make you read Fukuyama (though it would be nice if you could do that). No I do not believe that our civilization has reached a saturation point. Far from it. It is at a transitional point. One horror is being replaced by another hideous structure. The capitalists are being replaced by the technocrats. But what about countries like China you say? Well my friend if Yunnan is any indication it is going the same way as the rest of the world. If you believe “One swallow does not make a summer” you can think again. The world has changed; we have almost made the swallows extinct. In these times one swallow is more than enough to predict a summer. It is going to the age of technocrats from now onwards. Let me quote from a comment on one of my earlier posts from “C”. I do not know who this gentleman/woman is. He/she was outl lining the current US domestic policy based on a book by Russell D. Howard (Colonel USA) and Reid L. Sawyer(captain USA) (written/copywrited in 2003 by McGraw- Hill/Dushkin
and is listed in the Library of Congress with Control Number 2002106286 as per the comment).
“page 543
> Business Versus Terror
>
> Only a new kind of alliance can win the war on terrorism. This
> alliance will not be one between nations nor will it be bounded by a
> treaty. Instead, it will be unconventional, involve millions of
> disparate actors, and be guided by rules that will be constantly
> rewritten. It will be an alliance of a motley army of horizontal
> partnerships, with a nontraditional leadership structure. Its best
> troops will be the regiments of geeks rather than the special
forces
> that struck the first blows against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
These
> pocket-protector brigades live on rations of cold pizza and coffee,
> not MRE's (the military ready to eat). They take orders not from
> generals or admirals but from markets and stockholders.
>
> Th members of this fighting force are scientists and doctors,
> venture capitalists and corporate project managers--the private-
> sector army that is the United States, not-so-secr4et- weapon and
> best hope. These unlikely warriors will provide the software,
> systems and analytical resources that will enable the United States
> to track terrorists. It is they who will develop the sensing
systems
> to detect biological, chemical and cyber threats. And it is they
who
> will perfect the biometric devices, such as retinal scanners or
thumb-
> print readers or facial-recognition technologies, that will be
> critical components of next-generation security systems and that
will
> close the gaps Mohammed Atta and his associates revealed.
>
> The Bush administration and terrorism experts know this group is
> critical. The enormous Pentagon aquisition apparatus has already
> begun to direct funds to new private-sector ventures that can
satisfy
> immediate and longer term tactical and strategic needs. Governor
Tom
> Ridge, director of the Office of Homeland Security, has taken the
> first steps toward institutionalizing the public-private
partnership
> that is absolutely critical to achieving US domestic defense goals.”
Though the central theme seems to be that of combating terrorism it provides an insight into the current thought structure of the US and of course the rest of the governments in the world on the direction things are going to take from now onwards. It is almost as if the governments are in the process of “withering away” as prophesied by Karl Marx (what an irony of fate!). Note that this alliance is formed exclusively between the executive and the technocrats mediated only by business interests. No system readily supports its own over throw. It fights to the end to hang on to its achievements. But that all seems to be in the past now. The current power structures are welcoming the change with relief.
This is because they have learnt their lesson from the past. They know if they fail to evolve they would be replaced, and they are evolving. The only thing is that this evolution has not taken the right path. It harbors ill will towards the people. It is the mutation of the already corrupt to the status of the absolute masters. We have never been at such a pass before. You can imagine what course it would take. Even now every single human being in the world is under constant surveillance. This is not fantasy. It is a fact. Any nation which has satellites in the orbits around the earth is capable of monitoring every single event that is happening below. There are rays which could penetrate thick walls and hundreds of feet underneath the earth’s surface. So our life is not privet any more. Our governments are either inept or corrupt. But yet they are the governments we put into place. Though they almost always act dumb when it comes to the question of human rights these are at least our own creations and represents us. The tools they have now are the property of the people and theoretically they can be controlled by us through democratic means. But once these tools are passed on to the hands of the privet sector or they start building more sophisticated tools to be used on the public it can not be controlled in any manner known to us. We are yet to find a business man concerned about the welfare of the general public.
This is the world that we are living in. This is our present reality. Some may call it even inevitable, but when business starts to look after the interests of the state, the whole concept of governance changes. It becomes based on the philosophy of profit and loss and not on welfare. Already such interests are visible in the world. The World Bank IMF and the ADB is seeing to that. Most of the poor countries are being told what to do inside their countries in no uncertain terms. The moment governments start to play to the tune of business interests (under whatever pretext) the basic principles on which the modern state is founded upon is eroded. This is not an unexpected phenomenon. All over the world governments have been slowly withdrawing from social welfare obligations.
But the danger is more threatening than even this scenario. As stated earlier The governments are trying to evolve. They are about to shed their shells and climb into a new one. This period of transition is their most vulnerable moment. Propaganda is not enough to assist them in this transition, mis- direction and mis/dis information is not going to be of much help. More subtle methods are needed. This is where they turn to tools of brain control; to me this is the back ground of mass mind control they are practicing. They want a submissive society which would permit this transition by ignoring it. The efforts are to numb the brain on the one end and to flood it with useless information on the other end. Those that oppose would be termed as subversives. In fact in the modern state every honest citizen is a potential threat. If you believe in liberty, freedom, equality and the like you become a persona -non -grata to the establishment. If you ask questions you are a trouble maker.
But if you are glued to the TV and gulps down everything that the media dishes out to you and are satisfied with things in general you are left alone, but mind you, you are still under surveillance, whether you like it or not. Some you might think that things could not be as bad as that. Well try this if you want to find out. Get on a bench, a box or any some place elevated and say a few things about how things are in the world, say that you hate war or how unemployment is on the rise in your country, or how the prices are going up. You live in a free country don’t you? You have rights to express yourself, it goes without saying? If you think these are simple things and you have the rights to say it, try and find out. I would not advise it though!
I am afraid that we are witnessing the metamorphosis of the modern state into a business venture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Fukuyama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Modern Merchantism
I was brought up on modernism. I would still go for it any time. And I am quite unashamed about it in these post modern times. Modernism had a healthy distaste for every propped up institution in the world. It viewed the establishment as evil. It delighted in pulling down the arrogant architectures of a utilitarian culture. And it was right, for every grand institution turns on its adherents after a period of time and catches them by the throat, trying to squeeze the very life out of them. Also the utilitarian culture always had the capability to construct terrible deformities like Auschwitz and Dachau. We did not view it as the creation of the Nazis alone, for we knew that Nazi’s were just the torch bearers at that particular point of time. Fascism is a disease of the psyche, it was prevalent all through the long history of human evolution. But it has not reared its ugly head in a similar fashion to that of the first half of last century. All knew something was wrong, and every one who set out to investigate the problem became a modernist.
These knew that the movement was destined to be superseded by another such movement, but what came in its wake was a horror of the first order. We can’t deny that this new malady was helped by several factors. External techniques of war and interrogation had been replaced by internal techniques. Brute force was traded for subtle invasive brutality. Reality was overthrown by virtual reality. It was the beginning of technocracy. By the time it had really begun to sweep aside everything in its wake, it was a bit too late to fashion an effective technique of defense against it. The technology had caught people with their pants down. It had an alluring physical presence and they fell for the snare of this new vampire. It does not drink your blood. But it sucks your spirit dry.
But the world had not changed one bit, it was as brutal as it was before, and in reality it had become more inhuman and more insensitive than it was. There is something very wrong with the human psyche. It has not improved at all through the passage of time. The same violent passions, the same bestial urges, the same stupid antagonisms rule the roost. There is something deep down in us which do not allow us to prosper inwardly as a human society, a strange restraining force for going against evil. It always sides with the ill and with the pretension of doing well. The soldier says “it’s my guys out there, they need me”. Really he is not speaking for himself, he is speaking for the “clan“. This elusive clan could be an archetype within the psyche. He is already sort of disembodied, he does not care for himself, but he care for something. The problem with that something is that it is entirely wrong. That something is about the “guys”. For the same guys who again do not care for themselves.
Look how the system makes you say things. It puts you through the rigors of a terribly Spartan existence, It denies you the normal necessities of life, it court- martial’s you if you dare to just look defiantly up. But it make you bond with others for sacrificing yourself for causes of which you can’t make the head and tail of. What are you fighting for? Is the fight going to save the world? Is it going to create anything other than despair, for both the victors and the defeated? It happened in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, in Iraq and in India’s case in Srilanka. It does not end here.
This is what the establishment does to you. It crushes your reason and provides you with a vague sense of belonging to something very basic, in this case a confused link to fellow soldiers. Personally these guys may not care to know each other even in civilian life, before they ever met in the military setting I mean. The system creates a fake bonding with a fake pretense. This is why it is anti-human. The stronger its external structure is the viler it is. This drama of the unconscious desire in the system for destroying human beings as well as other structures (seen antagonistic to it) has been holding center stage for a long time it seems. May be this drama is never going to end. I believe that we have some sort of a destructive gene inside us, which makes us deny others the freedom that we would have for ourselves. There is also a convergence of various power structures towards every other such structure which is terrifying.
The more frightening aspect of the techno- civilization is that it has now taken its fights into the sphere of the mind. Its Auschwitz and Dachau’s are invisible. It has created a Panopticon of the whole world. Every single human being inside this Panopticon is always being monitored by the masters. This modern Panopticon does not have any walls. Its boundaries extend to all the spheres of human intervention, both global and spatial. The eyes of the guard’s looks at you through satellites, their ears are tuned into your conversations through Echelon, their instructions reach you through the gadgets you carry around with you or wonder of wonders, through the thin air.
I believe that the modernist values still hold good in this post –post- modernist times. All seems to have accepted the intervention of the market into their lives. It is the primary playing ground of post modernism. It boasts of nullifying greater narratives. But the aim behind it is all too evident. It wants to sell goods. It is fashioning peoples taste to newer products by ousting older ones from the mind. The talk of negating greater narratives serves the purpose very well. Unfortunately those that call themselves progressives have also fallen for the sweet talk of the degenerate philosophy. They naively believe that the new reality could be interpreted in this manner more convincingly. Nothing could be farther from the truth than that. If some one vainly hopes for making the existing destructive world -view scarce by this new approach, they can think again. Negating greater narratives for post modernism is not the same as demolishing institutions of the modernism. Post modernism is not a transitional stage of modernism as some believe. It is dead against the spirit of modernism.
This might not go down well with some of you. But Post modernism was invented by the apologists of the establishment with the help of the market gurus. It is entirely a market oriented philosophy, if you can call it a philosophy at all. No wonder it spread like a disease all over the world within no time of its inception. It had to be preached all over the world to instill the supposedly fresh and thoroughly body oriented thought structure to the already highly infected public. With the help of electronic media it has achieved its primary aim, that of spreading the consumerist culture every where in the world.
Some say that it took the modernism to reach the third world 30 years from its beginning but that the post-modernism took immediate root every where. No wonder. Its god is the omnipresent market. It does not propagate ideas on humanity; instead it sells goods and services and makes good profit out of it. It is impersonal and faceless. It has given the control of the world to a few merchants who would like to rule the world.
This is the age of Merchantism rather than that of post modernism, but not merely in the sense seen by Raymond E. Feist in “Rise of a Merchant Prince” but in a much more invasive and aggressive manner than any thing the world has ever seen. Philosophy of gain pervades everything; it is the shadow culture of greed cleverly foisted on the human body in exclusion to everything else with a double purpose- to control and to amass wealth. No other considerations find a place in this scheme of greed.
Sad times these.
Note : My idea’s on both modernism and post modernism is thoroughly subjective and may not agree with what is being said and taught about them in the academic circle or even among the enthusiasts. Those who want to form their own views on these subjects may refer to the following links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
These links may be of use to you as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
http://photo.net/bp/dachau
http://www.rationalmind.net/essays/our-techno-utopian-future-fallacies-and-predictions/
http://books.google.com/books?id=pRGTw-uAAc4C&pg=PA204&lpg=PA204&dq=techno-+civilization&source=web&ots=G5NUjdDDA2&sig=xc2IhKNY33mupi3mS-tqO4q6F_M&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result
http://runescape-money-guide.blogspot.com/2008/01/ways-to-make-runescape-money.html
These knew that the movement was destined to be superseded by another such movement, but what came in its wake was a horror of the first order. We can’t deny that this new malady was helped by several factors. External techniques of war and interrogation had been replaced by internal techniques. Brute force was traded for subtle invasive brutality. Reality was overthrown by virtual reality. It was the beginning of technocracy. By the time it had really begun to sweep aside everything in its wake, it was a bit too late to fashion an effective technique of defense against it. The technology had caught people with their pants down. It had an alluring physical presence and they fell for the snare of this new vampire. It does not drink your blood. But it sucks your spirit dry.
But the world had not changed one bit, it was as brutal as it was before, and in reality it had become more inhuman and more insensitive than it was. There is something very wrong with the human psyche. It has not improved at all through the passage of time. The same violent passions, the same bestial urges, the same stupid antagonisms rule the roost. There is something deep down in us which do not allow us to prosper inwardly as a human society, a strange restraining force for going against evil. It always sides with the ill and with the pretension of doing well. The soldier says “it’s my guys out there, they need me”. Really he is not speaking for himself, he is speaking for the “clan“. This elusive clan could be an archetype within the psyche. He is already sort of disembodied, he does not care for himself, but he care for something. The problem with that something is that it is entirely wrong. That something is about the “guys”. For the same guys who again do not care for themselves.
Look how the system makes you say things. It puts you through the rigors of a terribly Spartan existence, It denies you the normal necessities of life, it court- martial’s you if you dare to just look defiantly up. But it make you bond with others for sacrificing yourself for causes of which you can’t make the head and tail of. What are you fighting for? Is the fight going to save the world? Is it going to create anything other than despair, for both the victors and the defeated? It happened in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, in Iraq and in India’s case in Srilanka. It does not end here.
This is what the establishment does to you. It crushes your reason and provides you with a vague sense of belonging to something very basic, in this case a confused link to fellow soldiers. Personally these guys may not care to know each other even in civilian life, before they ever met in the military setting I mean. The system creates a fake bonding with a fake pretense. This is why it is anti-human. The stronger its external structure is the viler it is. This drama of the unconscious desire in the system for destroying human beings as well as other structures (seen antagonistic to it) has been holding center stage for a long time it seems. May be this drama is never going to end. I believe that we have some sort of a destructive gene inside us, which makes us deny others the freedom that we would have for ourselves. There is also a convergence of various power structures towards every other such structure which is terrifying.
The more frightening aspect of the techno- civilization is that it has now taken its fights into the sphere of the mind. Its Auschwitz and Dachau’s are invisible. It has created a Panopticon of the whole world. Every single human being inside this Panopticon is always being monitored by the masters. This modern Panopticon does not have any walls. Its boundaries extend to all the spheres of human intervention, both global and spatial. The eyes of the guard’s looks at you through satellites, their ears are tuned into your conversations through Echelon, their instructions reach you through the gadgets you carry around with you or wonder of wonders, through the thin air.
I believe that the modernist values still hold good in this post –post- modernist times. All seems to have accepted the intervention of the market into their lives. It is the primary playing ground of post modernism. It boasts of nullifying greater narratives. But the aim behind it is all too evident. It wants to sell goods. It is fashioning peoples taste to newer products by ousting older ones from the mind. The talk of negating greater narratives serves the purpose very well. Unfortunately those that call themselves progressives have also fallen for the sweet talk of the degenerate philosophy. They naively believe that the new reality could be interpreted in this manner more convincingly. Nothing could be farther from the truth than that. If some one vainly hopes for making the existing destructive world -view scarce by this new approach, they can think again. Negating greater narratives for post modernism is not the same as demolishing institutions of the modernism. Post modernism is not a transitional stage of modernism as some believe. It is dead against the spirit of modernism.
This might not go down well with some of you. But Post modernism was invented by the apologists of the establishment with the help of the market gurus. It is entirely a market oriented philosophy, if you can call it a philosophy at all. No wonder it spread like a disease all over the world within no time of its inception. It had to be preached all over the world to instill the supposedly fresh and thoroughly body oriented thought structure to the already highly infected public. With the help of electronic media it has achieved its primary aim, that of spreading the consumerist culture every where in the world.
Some say that it took the modernism to reach the third world 30 years from its beginning but that the post-modernism took immediate root every where. No wonder. Its god is the omnipresent market. It does not propagate ideas on humanity; instead it sells goods and services and makes good profit out of it. It is impersonal and faceless. It has given the control of the world to a few merchants who would like to rule the world.
This is the age of Merchantism rather than that of post modernism, but not merely in the sense seen by Raymond E. Feist in “Rise of a Merchant Prince” but in a much more invasive and aggressive manner than any thing the world has ever seen. Philosophy of gain pervades everything; it is the shadow culture of greed cleverly foisted on the human body in exclusion to everything else with a double purpose- to control and to amass wealth. No other considerations find a place in this scheme of greed.
Sad times these.
Note : My idea’s on both modernism and post modernism is thoroughly subjective and may not agree with what is being said and taught about them in the academic circle or even among the enthusiasts. Those who want to form their own views on these subjects may refer to the following links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
These links may be of use to you as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
http://photo.net/bp/dachau
http://www.rationalmind.net/essays/our-techno-utopian-future-fallacies-and-predictions/
http://books.google.com/books?id=pRGTw-uAAc4C&pg=PA204&lpg=PA204&dq=techno-+civilization&source=web&ots=G5NUjdDDA2&sig=xc2IhKNY33mupi3mS-tqO4q6F_M&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result
http://runescape-money-guide.blogspot.com/2008/01/ways-to-make-runescape-money.html
Surrogate in cyber space
Here is a technology that is fast developing, the Holomer technology. Holomer or more precisely HOLO-graphic M-edical E-lectronic R-epresentation is a three dimensional digital record of a person obtained through the use of various medical scanning devises such as the CT scan, MRI scan, ultra sonic scan and other such machines. Most of these are in use at present. Thus it is not at all futuristic as it might appear at first, though some of the concepts involved are a bit futuristic at this moment The combined out put of these machines are integrated to form a single body of information to produce a holographic image( now a computer image) of the person under study. The image created thus is called the holomer of the person. In the year 2001 when these novel information was coming out the image obtained in this manner was still being viewed on a computer monitor. But Dr. RM Satava, MD, FACS , formerly of Yale University was of the view that “based upon technology in the laboratories today, they will be displayed as three dimensional holographic suspended images” He was also optimistic that the holomer would enable us to create human surrogate in cyberspace - an informational equivalent of the person in bits and bytes.
What this means is that the data collected through the technology is as comprehensive as to act as a substitute for the real person as far as medical treatment is concerned. The image would be containing “not only anatomically precise information, but also physiologic, biologic, genetic, demographic and other information” This provides the doctors with a great advantage. For one thing it makes diagnosis easy. All data relevant to a particular form of disease can be retrieved from the holomer to form a visual medical record. Also it can become an educational tool for the patient. The physicians can explain to the patient what actually the problem with their health is.
Its applications do not end there. Surgeons stand to gain much from this technology. If a complicated operation, such as the brain surgery is to be performed, they can use the holomer image to practice the surgery till it is perfect before conducting it on the person. This is already in use especially in neuro and orthopedic surgery. The technology has an added benefit in that at the time of the surgery the image could be overlaid on the real organ, enhanced by detailed representation of internal structure such as blood vessels, bile ducts etc by employing data fusion. This would lighten the load of the surgeon conceivably. The images can also be used to study the pre operation and post operation situation and conditions of the patient.
But the doctor believed that these are only some of the fundamental changes in the offing. Soon every one would be having a holomer and “This image can in the future become a surrogate for an individual." The images would make it possible for the doctors to actually show the patients how some of their actions affect their bodies such as smoking. He had made a rather interesting observation too.
"It goes back to [the game of] Dungeons and Dragons," he said. "We learned there that people get very attached to their avatars." Patients also would own the data, so they could sell it to pharmaceutical companies and other groups for research databases. Dr. Satava predicted that this type of information resource would be of immense value to researchers”
Well, on the reverse, our good doctor is currently employed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa which has a dubious reputation as regards human rights. It is the research arm of the Pentagon and is interested in everything that affects an individual human being in general. The doctor now a professor of surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle was chosen for his work and idea’s on holomer. He is in charge of a project called the Virtual Soldier.
The pentagon wants to create a virtual soldier from the data gained through the methods earlier discussed in the article and based on its real life subject. They claim that this would make it easy to medically supervise their soldiers when in action. They are also not selfish it seems (!) for they have asserted that,
“Everyone,.could one day carry around an electronic copy of his or her anatomy -- maybe as soon as 10 years from now. Every single person in the United States will have an electronic medical record”
In his new ‘avatar’ Satva has this to say about his project.
“Every sonogram, X-ray or CT scan could automatically update the holomer, offering a detailed picture of what's going on inside the body at that very moment.
Handheld ultrasound scanners, the real world's analog to Star Trek's tricorders, already are in early market stages. Medical monitors to track pulse, body temperature and the like are supposed to be woven into the next generation of soldier uniforms. And computer programs are starting to take a stab at diagnosing patients. Combine these advances with the holomer, and combat medics might have instant, automatic diagnoses of the wounded.
The holomer also might be able to use predictive algorithms to look into the body's future.”
Some experts are still calling the program as a bit ambitious. Yet some of them think it is doable. But satva is confident about the outcome of the research. He has also a time frame of ten years in mind for the fruition of the technology. He is not satisfied with viewing the image on a computer screen. He believes that with the full backing of the US Government for the project it would show results in the near future. Some of the things he said are notable.
"This is going to happen much quicker than any of (the naysayers) anticipate," he said. "They have no idea what's available now to us, let alone what's going to be available in the next five to 10 years. They're so far behind the (computer processing) power curve."
This is a fact some of the TI’s been shouting at the top of their voice for sometime now, and went unheeded. “Having no idea of what is currently available to them” is what is causing all this heart burn for the afflicted. This hearing it straight from the horse’s mouth. Is anybody listening?
Satva also sees a connection between his program and one other program of the DARPA . It is called the life log. The effort in Life log is similar. It intends at capturing all the activities ( reading, seeing and hearing) of a person to create an “other” of the man on computers.
He has mentioned Oscar Wilds famous Dorian Gray in this connection. It could not be a mere coincidence, could it be? It struck me as strange at first. But on a deeper analysis I found it as the most natural of all things he could say. On the surface it looks like an innocent analogy. But in reality Wilds Dorian Gray is the modern inhuman culture in a nutshell, the evil self is hidden in an attic, the image carry’s on with out any concern in the world whatsoever.
There might come a time when somebody rends this piece of filth, carefully concealed in the garret, thus ending this vile apology of a culture altogether.
These are links you might want to look up:
http://www.websurg.com/ref/doi-ed01en0004.htm
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2003/08/60016
What this means is that the data collected through the technology is as comprehensive as to act as a substitute for the real person as far as medical treatment is concerned. The image would be containing “not only anatomically precise information, but also physiologic, biologic, genetic, demographic and other information” This provides the doctors with a great advantage. For one thing it makes diagnosis easy. All data relevant to a particular form of disease can be retrieved from the holomer to form a visual medical record. Also it can become an educational tool for the patient. The physicians can explain to the patient what actually the problem with their health is.
Its applications do not end there. Surgeons stand to gain much from this technology. If a complicated operation, such as the brain surgery is to be performed, they can use the holomer image to practice the surgery till it is perfect before conducting it on the person. This is already in use especially in neuro and orthopedic surgery. The technology has an added benefit in that at the time of the surgery the image could be overlaid on the real organ, enhanced by detailed representation of internal structure such as blood vessels, bile ducts etc by employing data fusion. This would lighten the load of the surgeon conceivably. The images can also be used to study the pre operation and post operation situation and conditions of the patient.
But the doctor believed that these are only some of the fundamental changes in the offing. Soon every one would be having a holomer and “This image can in the future become a surrogate for an individual." The images would make it possible for the doctors to actually show the patients how some of their actions affect their bodies such as smoking. He had made a rather interesting observation too.
"It goes back to [the game of] Dungeons and Dragons," he said. "We learned there that people get very attached to their avatars." Patients also would own the data, so they could sell it to pharmaceutical companies and other groups for research databases. Dr. Satava predicted that this type of information resource would be of immense value to researchers”
Well, on the reverse, our good doctor is currently employed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa which has a dubious reputation as regards human rights. It is the research arm of the Pentagon and is interested in everything that affects an individual human being in general. The doctor now a professor of surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle was chosen for his work and idea’s on holomer. He is in charge of a project called the Virtual Soldier.
The pentagon wants to create a virtual soldier from the data gained through the methods earlier discussed in the article and based on its real life subject. They claim that this would make it easy to medically supervise their soldiers when in action. They are also not selfish it seems (!) for they have asserted that,
“Everyone,.could one day carry around an electronic copy of his or her anatomy -- maybe as soon as 10 years from now. Every single person in the United States will have an electronic medical record”
In his new ‘avatar’ Satva has this to say about his project.
“Every sonogram, X-ray or CT scan could automatically update the holomer, offering a detailed picture of what's going on inside the body at that very moment.
Handheld ultrasound scanners, the real world's analog to Star Trek's tricorders, already are in early market stages. Medical monitors to track pulse, body temperature and the like are supposed to be woven into the next generation of soldier uniforms. And computer programs are starting to take a stab at diagnosing patients. Combine these advances with the holomer, and combat medics might have instant, automatic diagnoses of the wounded.
The holomer also might be able to use predictive algorithms to look into the body's future.”
Some experts are still calling the program as a bit ambitious. Yet some of them think it is doable. But satva is confident about the outcome of the research. He has also a time frame of ten years in mind for the fruition of the technology. He is not satisfied with viewing the image on a computer screen. He believes that with the full backing of the US Government for the project it would show results in the near future. Some of the things he said are notable.
"This is going to happen much quicker than any of (the naysayers) anticipate," he said. "They have no idea what's available now to us, let alone what's going to be available in the next five to 10 years. They're so far behind the (computer processing) power curve."
This is a fact some of the TI’s been shouting at the top of their voice for sometime now, and went unheeded. “Having no idea of what is currently available to them” is what is causing all this heart burn for the afflicted. This hearing it straight from the horse’s mouth. Is anybody listening?
Satva also sees a connection between his program and one other program of the DARPA . It is called the life log. The effort in Life log is similar. It intends at capturing all the activities ( reading, seeing and hearing) of a person to create an “other” of the man on computers.
He has mentioned Oscar Wilds famous Dorian Gray in this connection. It could not be a mere coincidence, could it be? It struck me as strange at first. But on a deeper analysis I found it as the most natural of all things he could say. On the surface it looks like an innocent analogy. But in reality Wilds Dorian Gray is the modern inhuman culture in a nutshell, the evil self is hidden in an attic, the image carry’s on with out any concern in the world whatsoever.
There might come a time when somebody rends this piece of filth, carefully concealed in the garret, thus ending this vile apology of a culture altogether.
These are links you might want to look up:
http://www.websurg.com/ref/doi-ed01en0004.htm
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2003/08/60016
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Vampires galore
Vampirism
Well I really do not know what I am getting into. I have been writing on aliens, and now here I am writing about Vampirism. No need to fear though, it’s about energy vampires that I am concerned about, not the real variety, the Count Dracula variety. That could be scary, but luckily it seems, if C.W.Leadbeater and company is to be believed, they would not exist in countries where people burn their dead. They need the body to project themselves into the astral form.
The Astral Plane by C.W Leadbeater contains several interesting accounts of the plane that is said to be the next to that of the physical plane that we live in. The belief is that we enter the astral world soon after our death. It is said to be much like the world that we live in and exists in the same region although unknown to us. According to Mr. Leadbeater the completely soulless and depraved men can not stay in the astral world after death and has to go to the “eighth sphere” whatever it is, to under go painful torments for the terrible deeds done by them while living.
Well such men, if they know something of the “black arts” can postpone this fate indefinitely by preserving their body in a “cataleptic trance” by infusing blood into it and thus keeping it in a state of freshness. It is said that the eighth sphere can not claim them till the dispersal of the physical body. As there were no blood banks in the distant past, they had to draw blood from other beings with the help of their “semi materialized astral”.
Leadbeater has said that there were a few such examples of vampires at the time of writing his book. I could not get the date of the actual publishing of the book from it, but I believe the articles in it were written sometime early in the last century. Interestingly he cited Russia and Hungary as the most likely places in which we can find some of these rare individuals.
The book might be available at some of the Theosophical sites
Well these “class acts” in the vampire kingdom and our energy vampires have only one thing in common, they both are supposed to take the life force out of you -The earlier class through physically draining you of blood and the later class by draining you of energy. But how do they do it? Can any one become an energy vampire? I have been intrigued by this question for a little while now. Well it seems now that people are born with this thing. Sergei Nikodimov, a Russian parapsychologist (God what am I coming into!) has this to say about the phenomenon:
“Numerous research works conducted by specialists of bioenergetics all over the world showed that all people can be conditionally divided into two major categories – vampires and donors. Each person radiates with live biological energy, which he or she can give to someone or take from someone. This quality of give and take forms with every human being during the moment of birth. If a baby is born as an energy vampire, this child is extremely capricious. When they grow, they try to follow parents everywhere on their heels and even try to sleep with them at night. As a rule, a person does not realize the need in other people's energy: the energy exchange happens on a subconscious level. However, a human body senses this invisible communication too and reacts with fatigue, headache, etc. A person may feel dog-tired at night and have absolutely no wish to get up in the morning. The loss of energy through human communication may also result in depression and weakened immune system,”
You can view the article here:
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/360/16423_vampire.html
It seems that these guys can not be alone and are very depressed when they are so. Their vampirism is said to be unconscious, and they are attracted to sports events because it provides them with a vast reservoir of energy. Well all that is well, but what is the actual mechanism by which the energy is being transferred? None seems to have an idea. At the same time there are people who consider themselves energy vampires like this one:
“Question: I've heard you discuss energy vampires and to move away from them. But I have never seen any help for those of us who are energy vampires and want to stop. I harm the people close to me with my energy. Lately, I’ve had terrible abuse memories, depression, panic, and severe mood swings. When strong feelings come up, I project them out on my partner and cause physical pain and emotional distress. I scare myself. I do this out of fear or anger, and then I wind up feeling more terrified - of myself. How do I face these severe emotions without connecting to others psychically? I want to stop dissociating, because that is when "something else" - something dark or stuck comes through me. All I know is I have been bought into darkness by allowing this to hurt my partner and others. “
The article is at this site:
http://www.drjudithorloff.com/askdrorloff.asp?action=question&idquestionQ=34
But the most interesting information came from a blog:
“Actually, I’ll take this a step further and offer a more “inside-out” definition. To me, an energy vampire is any thought pattern, activity, or habit that drains your life force. Whether the external influence that leads to this negative energy flow is a person, place, or thing, the vampire can only strike if you take the bait.”
This seems more like it. She has something going for her. The mention of thought pattern is of real interest. That could be the subtle mechanism at work.
She has also provided some solutions to the vampire problems.
http://30sleeps.com/blog/2007/09/14/5-energy-vampires-and-how-to-get-rid-of-them/
Judith Orloff MD a psychiatrist has this to say on the phenomenon:
“energy vampires exude negative energy that drains. Vampires range from the intentionally malicious ones to those who are oblivious to their effect. Some are overbearing and obnoxious; others are friendly and charming. For example, you're at a party talking to a perfectly nice person, but suddenly you're nauseous or weak. Or how about the co-worker who drones on about how she broke up with her boyfriend for the tenth time? Eventually, she feels better, but you're spent. The bottom line is that on a subtle energy level these people suck you dry.
Exercise: Take an inventory of people in your life who give energy, and people who drain. Specifically identify the energy vampires, and begin to evaluate ones you'd like to limit contact with or eliminate. Plan at least one complete afternoon with people who give off positive energy and avoid drainers. Notice how this beneficially affects their physical and emotional well-being”
Her website can be reached through this link:
http://www.drjudithorloff.com/energyVampire.asp
There is also a book available to read online on the subject. Here is the link
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=CcbUJerFyfQC&dq=Energy+vampire&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=mwGGQd0
Enjoy the detailed description.
You can check whether you are a donor or taker of energy by observing yourself in action. It is said that if you feel tired after meeting some one, gets a head ache, feel depressed and sad you are under an energy vampire’s attack
On a different note I should also mention that the power loss from your various appliances is also called the energy “vampire” by some. This site might show how powerful this vampire is.
http://www.grinningplanet.com/2004/10-26/vampire-power-electricity-article.htm
Well I really do not know what I am getting into. I have been writing on aliens, and now here I am writing about Vampirism. No need to fear though, it’s about energy vampires that I am concerned about, not the real variety, the Count Dracula variety. That could be scary, but luckily it seems, if C.W.Leadbeater and company is to be believed, they would not exist in countries where people burn their dead. They need the body to project themselves into the astral form.
The Astral Plane by C.W Leadbeater contains several interesting accounts of the plane that is said to be the next to that of the physical plane that we live in. The belief is that we enter the astral world soon after our death. It is said to be much like the world that we live in and exists in the same region although unknown to us. According to Mr. Leadbeater the completely soulless and depraved men can not stay in the astral world after death and has to go to the “eighth sphere” whatever it is, to under go painful torments for the terrible deeds done by them while living.
Well such men, if they know something of the “black arts” can postpone this fate indefinitely by preserving their body in a “cataleptic trance” by infusing blood into it and thus keeping it in a state of freshness. It is said that the eighth sphere can not claim them till the dispersal of the physical body. As there were no blood banks in the distant past, they had to draw blood from other beings with the help of their “semi materialized astral”.
Leadbeater has said that there were a few such examples of vampires at the time of writing his book. I could not get the date of the actual publishing of the book from it, but I believe the articles in it were written sometime early in the last century. Interestingly he cited Russia and Hungary as the most likely places in which we can find some of these rare individuals.
The book might be available at some of the Theosophical sites
Well these “class acts” in the vampire kingdom and our energy vampires have only one thing in common, they both are supposed to take the life force out of you -The earlier class through physically draining you of blood and the later class by draining you of energy. But how do they do it? Can any one become an energy vampire? I have been intrigued by this question for a little while now. Well it seems now that people are born with this thing. Sergei Nikodimov, a Russian parapsychologist (God what am I coming into!) has this to say about the phenomenon:
“Numerous research works conducted by specialists of bioenergetics all over the world showed that all people can be conditionally divided into two major categories – vampires and donors. Each person radiates with live biological energy, which he or she can give to someone or take from someone. This quality of give and take forms with every human being during the moment of birth. If a baby is born as an energy vampire, this child is extremely capricious. When they grow, they try to follow parents everywhere on their heels and even try to sleep with them at night. As a rule, a person does not realize the need in other people's energy: the energy exchange happens on a subconscious level. However, a human body senses this invisible communication too and reacts with fatigue, headache, etc. A person may feel dog-tired at night and have absolutely no wish to get up in the morning. The loss of energy through human communication may also result in depression and weakened immune system,”
You can view the article here:
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/360/16423_vampire.html
It seems that these guys can not be alone and are very depressed when they are so. Their vampirism is said to be unconscious, and they are attracted to sports events because it provides them with a vast reservoir of energy. Well all that is well, but what is the actual mechanism by which the energy is being transferred? None seems to have an idea. At the same time there are people who consider themselves energy vampires like this one:
“Question: I've heard you discuss energy vampires and to move away from them. But I have never seen any help for those of us who are energy vampires and want to stop. I harm the people close to me with my energy. Lately, I’ve had terrible abuse memories, depression, panic, and severe mood swings. When strong feelings come up, I project them out on my partner and cause physical pain and emotional distress. I scare myself. I do this out of fear or anger, and then I wind up feeling more terrified - of myself. How do I face these severe emotions without connecting to others psychically? I want to stop dissociating, because that is when "something else" - something dark or stuck comes through me. All I know is I have been bought into darkness by allowing this to hurt my partner and others. “
The article is at this site:
http://www.drjudithorloff.com/askdrorloff.asp?action=question&idquestionQ=34
But the most interesting information came from a blog:
“Actually, I’ll take this a step further and offer a more “inside-out” definition. To me, an energy vampire is any thought pattern, activity, or habit that drains your life force. Whether the external influence that leads to this negative energy flow is a person, place, or thing, the vampire can only strike if you take the bait.”
This seems more like it. She has something going for her. The mention of thought pattern is of real interest. That could be the subtle mechanism at work.
She has also provided some solutions to the vampire problems.
http://30sleeps.com/blog/2007/09/14/5-energy-vampires-and-how-to-get-rid-of-them/
Judith Orloff MD a psychiatrist has this to say on the phenomenon:
“energy vampires exude negative energy that drains. Vampires range from the intentionally malicious ones to those who are oblivious to their effect. Some are overbearing and obnoxious; others are friendly and charming. For example, you're at a party talking to a perfectly nice person, but suddenly you're nauseous or weak. Or how about the co-worker who drones on about how she broke up with her boyfriend for the tenth time? Eventually, she feels better, but you're spent. The bottom line is that on a subtle energy level these people suck you dry.
Exercise: Take an inventory of people in your life who give energy, and people who drain. Specifically identify the energy vampires, and begin to evaluate ones you'd like to limit contact with or eliminate. Plan at least one complete afternoon with people who give off positive energy and avoid drainers. Notice how this beneficially affects their physical and emotional well-being”
Her website can be reached through this link:
http://www.drjudithorloff.com/energyVampire.asp
There is also a book available to read online on the subject. Here is the link
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=CcbUJerFyfQC&dq=Energy+vampire&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=mwGGQd0
Enjoy the detailed description.
You can check whether you are a donor or taker of energy by observing yourself in action. It is said that if you feel tired after meeting some one, gets a head ache, feel depressed and sad you are under an energy vampire’s attack
On a different note I should also mention that the power loss from your various appliances is also called the energy “vampire” by some. This site might show how powerful this vampire is.
http://www.grinningplanet.com/2004/10-26/vampire-power-electricity-article.htm
Monday, July 14, 2008
Alien Red Rain and Geological Disturbances
My blessed land is finally awakening. It has been slumbering peacefully for ages, now it finds itself in the middle of hectic activity on all fronts. It has snapped a few nukes under ground some time ago under the supervision of BJP coalition headed by a moderate Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpaey, though Pakistan cracked a few harmless ones back too. Its rockets are aiming for the moon, and it is aiming to supply its kids with computers for as little as 400 hundred rupees ( around 7-8 dollars, no ,not a toy as you may think, a full functional computer with browser to surf the net and what not!) Its sons are buying up multi national corporations like buying up cookies the world over. Mukesh Ambani of Reliance has even become richer than Bill Gates (No wonder poor Gates has quit Microsoft and is currently doing charity work. Imagine being over thrown by an “Injian” of all people! There is a point up to which you can take it! Darn, if it is to be charity let it be charity! )
May be aliens are responsible for stirring up the dormant giant. They are said to have taken up abode in Ladakh and is said to be visiting our government officials for tea now and then and offering a few advices. One of our cabinet ministers at the center recently has even said we do not need nukes anymore. We have the alien technology instead. No, he hasn’t said the later part, but you know how the media has a way of finding truth from whatever you utter! So utter absolute ‘silence’ at all times rather than any spurious thoughts, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, aliens are the in thing for India (and for India in the world it appears) at present. They are even said to be fathering (would “authoring” be more appropriate?) children among our chaste lady folk. No no need to be upset man, it is what is being written about. Read this article yourself, if you have the “guts and ‘gumption’s” for it, as one of my childhood sparring mates was fond of barking at me.
http://www.unexplainable.net/artman/publish/article_2824.shtml
My doubt is whether all the Indians are the children of aliens as these guys are supposed to have been coming here from time immemorial. Hear this if you have ears,
“India, according to Dr.V. Raghavan, retired head of the Sanskrit department of India's prestigious University of Madras, was alone in playing host to extraterrestrials in prehistory.”
Did you remark that “alone” in the sentence? This he distilled out of old texts of Ramayana and Mahabharatha etc. And he is not alone (please don’t pick on this “alone”) in this belief it seems. There are scientists who agree with him. Here is one such “concurrence”
“Another authority who agrees with Dr. Raghavan's interpretations is Dr. A.V. Krishna Murty, professor of aeronautics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.”It is true," Dr. Krishna Murty says, "that the ancient Indian Vedas and other text refer to aeronautics, spaceships, flying machines, ancient astronauts.”A study of the Sanskrit texts has convinced me that ancient India did know the secret of building flying machines-and that those machines were patterned after spaceships coming from other planets."
You can (en) lighten yourself with more information from this source.
http://ufo.whipnet.org/creation/india.4000BC.ufo/
Now about more important things. In 2001 the Indian state of Kerala witnessed a strange group of events. First there was the red rain it received at some parts of the state. It was real and people got scared of it. Now the state has high literacy and is blessed with a high number of ‘rational’ people. Even the casual laborer in the state can discuss world politics and sciences as if they are born with the knowledge. Let me tell you that I have no intention to belittle the people. Most of them are intelligent and aware of things happening around them. It is a fact that the third person you would be meeting on any small town in the state would have a doctorate on some subject. You can find graduates and post graduates among the laborers even.
Hence their scare was not because of any superstition. They are far too wise for that. They intelligently assumed it was caused by some phenomena connected with the misuse of environment on the global or local level. There was also a theory that some of the states factories were responsible for the incident. One shrewd assumption went like this. The effluents discharged by some factories in to the sea water some how got evaporated retaining its chemical content and then was poured back into the land by the rain. I do not know if it is possible for water to retain its chemical content when evaporating and lifting off to form clouds. But this was the kind of guesses which were in vogue among people of the state at the time. They are not easily taken in by the supernatural/ alien definitions for the phenomenon. The media also know this fact and plays to the tune. In fact none of the local media dared to advance anything similar to alien intervention for the occurrence.
But among the populace was Godfrey Louis, a physicist, who had a different view altogether. Surprisingly his views were not cited by any of the media, may be because of the fear of being looked down upon by their highly intelligent public. His views on the subject could be guessed from this excerpt:
“Investigations suggested the rain was red because winds had swept up dust from Arabia and dumped it on Kerala. But Godfrey Louis, a physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, after gathering samples left over from the rains, concluded this was nonsense. 'If you look at these particles under a microscope, you can see they are not dust, they have a clear biological appearance.' Instead Louis decided that the rain was made up of bacteria-like material that had been swept to Earth from a passing comet. In short, it rained aliens over India during the summer of 2001.”
The article goes on to say that Lois assumed that this should be the case by the duration of the red rain which fell in the region. It rained red for two months in Kerala during the year. To prove his theory he had collected red rain water and had sent it to various scientists for study. He claimed there was alien DNA in it. But this is what a British scientist who was conducting experiments on it has to say on the theory of alien DNA.
“Milton Wainwright, a microbiologist at Sheffield, is now testing samples of Kerala's red rain.’It is too early to say what's in the phial,' he said. 'But it is certainly not dust. Nor is there any DNA there, but then alien bacteria would not necessarily contain DNA.”
But this was not the only phenomenon that was happening. All over the state wells were disappearing. Unlike most other states in the country, Kerala still have a large number of wells which people use. Every house would have a well in its compound and houses are only built at places where you can find water. The Malayalee (those that speak Malayalam, Kerala’s state language) has a strange fascination for water. With innumerable lakes rivers and ponds and other water bodies they have never felt the need to be thrifty with water. They bathe twice a day and would bathe any number of times in summer. (Kerala is the largest consumer of soaps in the country may be in the whole world if a comparative study is conducted on the numbers of people at a place and soaps being sold there. They have an inherent sense of cleanliness and a deadly craze for water)
To such a people wells are something they can’t do without. At the same time as the red rain has been happening the wells started to disappear. It would happen suddenly and without warning. One moment there would be a well and the next moment there would be a small depression in the ground where the well was and nothing else. The wells would be completely filled up. There were incidents where people had to be rescued from the ruins of a well, as they would slide into it with ground sliding down to fill the well. This was happening all over the land and people were frightened to go near the well. Some times wells rich in water would dry up all of a sudden. There were also incidents where wells started to seeth and fume. Most of the wells affected would exhibit change of colour to the water. All sorts of colours were witnessed, but red was predomonant. Giant bubbles would start to break out of the surface of the water and the wells would start to gurgle noisily.
All these were happening at the same time. There were many theories among people. Volcanic activity being the most favorite one. Here is again a piece fro Lois’s findings which may have some relevance to this phenomenon “Louis also discovered that, hours before the first red rain fell, there was a loud sonic boom that shook houses in Kerala. Only an incoming meteorite could have triggered such a blast, he claims”
There has never been any big earth quakes in the region for as far back as any body would remember although geologists were always warning the region was quake prone. Is it possible that a sonic boom as Lois described could cause such internal geological disturbances with such outcome? Some have called Lois’s theory “Bulshit” but the man is said to be “unrepentant”. Here are his final words according to the article
'If anybody hears a theory like this, that it is from a comet, they dismiss it as an unbelievable kind of conclusion. Unless people understand our arguments - people will just rule it out as an impossible thing, that extra-terrestrial biology is responsible for this red rain.'
Read the article at this link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/mar/05/spaceexploration.theobserver
And see the photograph of the alien rain here.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-06/it-raining-aliens
Well it has always been said that India is a land of magic. Now it has turned out to be a land of alien magic. Talk of progress!
May be aliens are responsible for stirring up the dormant giant. They are said to have taken up abode in Ladakh and is said to be visiting our government officials for tea now and then and offering a few advices. One of our cabinet ministers at the center recently has even said we do not need nukes anymore. We have the alien technology instead. No, he hasn’t said the later part, but you know how the media has a way of finding truth from whatever you utter! So utter absolute ‘silence’ at all times rather than any spurious thoughts, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, aliens are the in thing for India (and for India in the world it appears) at present. They are even said to be fathering (would “authoring” be more appropriate?) children among our chaste lady folk. No no need to be upset man, it is what is being written about. Read this article yourself, if you have the “guts and ‘gumption’s” for it, as one of my childhood sparring mates was fond of barking at me.
http://www.unexplainable.net/artman/publish/article_2824.shtml
My doubt is whether all the Indians are the children of aliens as these guys are supposed to have been coming here from time immemorial. Hear this if you have ears,
“India, according to Dr.V. Raghavan, retired head of the Sanskrit department of India's prestigious University of Madras, was alone in playing host to extraterrestrials in prehistory.”
Did you remark that “alone” in the sentence? This he distilled out of old texts of Ramayana and Mahabharatha etc. And he is not alone (please don’t pick on this “alone”) in this belief it seems. There are scientists who agree with him. Here is one such “concurrence”
“Another authority who agrees with Dr. Raghavan's interpretations is Dr. A.V. Krishna Murty, professor of aeronautics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.”It is true," Dr. Krishna Murty says, "that the ancient Indian Vedas and other text refer to aeronautics, spaceships, flying machines, ancient astronauts.”A study of the Sanskrit texts has convinced me that ancient India did know the secret of building flying machines-and that those machines were patterned after spaceships coming from other planets."
You can (en) lighten yourself with more information from this source.
http://ufo.whipnet.org/creation/india.4000BC.ufo/
Now about more important things. In 2001 the Indian state of Kerala witnessed a strange group of events. First there was the red rain it received at some parts of the state. It was real and people got scared of it. Now the state has high literacy and is blessed with a high number of ‘rational’ people. Even the casual laborer in the state can discuss world politics and sciences as if they are born with the knowledge. Let me tell you that I have no intention to belittle the people. Most of them are intelligent and aware of things happening around them. It is a fact that the third person you would be meeting on any small town in the state would have a doctorate on some subject. You can find graduates and post graduates among the laborers even.
Hence their scare was not because of any superstition. They are far too wise for that. They intelligently assumed it was caused by some phenomena connected with the misuse of environment on the global or local level. There was also a theory that some of the states factories were responsible for the incident. One shrewd assumption went like this. The effluents discharged by some factories in to the sea water some how got evaporated retaining its chemical content and then was poured back into the land by the rain. I do not know if it is possible for water to retain its chemical content when evaporating and lifting off to form clouds. But this was the kind of guesses which were in vogue among people of the state at the time. They are not easily taken in by the supernatural/ alien definitions for the phenomenon. The media also know this fact and plays to the tune. In fact none of the local media dared to advance anything similar to alien intervention for the occurrence.
But among the populace was Godfrey Louis, a physicist, who had a different view altogether. Surprisingly his views were not cited by any of the media, may be because of the fear of being looked down upon by their highly intelligent public. His views on the subject could be guessed from this excerpt:
“Investigations suggested the rain was red because winds had swept up dust from Arabia and dumped it on Kerala. But Godfrey Louis, a physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, after gathering samples left over from the rains, concluded this was nonsense. 'If you look at these particles under a microscope, you can see they are not dust, they have a clear biological appearance.' Instead Louis decided that the rain was made up of bacteria-like material that had been swept to Earth from a passing comet. In short, it rained aliens over India during the summer of 2001.”
The article goes on to say that Lois assumed that this should be the case by the duration of the red rain which fell in the region. It rained red for two months in Kerala during the year. To prove his theory he had collected red rain water and had sent it to various scientists for study. He claimed there was alien DNA in it. But this is what a British scientist who was conducting experiments on it has to say on the theory of alien DNA.
“Milton Wainwright, a microbiologist at Sheffield, is now testing samples of Kerala's red rain.’It is too early to say what's in the phial,' he said. 'But it is certainly not dust. Nor is there any DNA there, but then alien bacteria would not necessarily contain DNA.”
But this was not the only phenomenon that was happening. All over the state wells were disappearing. Unlike most other states in the country, Kerala still have a large number of wells which people use. Every house would have a well in its compound and houses are only built at places where you can find water. The Malayalee (those that speak Malayalam, Kerala’s state language) has a strange fascination for water. With innumerable lakes rivers and ponds and other water bodies they have never felt the need to be thrifty with water. They bathe twice a day and would bathe any number of times in summer. (Kerala is the largest consumer of soaps in the country may be in the whole world if a comparative study is conducted on the numbers of people at a place and soaps being sold there. They have an inherent sense of cleanliness and a deadly craze for water)
To such a people wells are something they can’t do without. At the same time as the red rain has been happening the wells started to disappear. It would happen suddenly and without warning. One moment there would be a well and the next moment there would be a small depression in the ground where the well was and nothing else. The wells would be completely filled up. There were incidents where people had to be rescued from the ruins of a well, as they would slide into it with ground sliding down to fill the well. This was happening all over the land and people were frightened to go near the well. Some times wells rich in water would dry up all of a sudden. There were also incidents where wells started to seeth and fume. Most of the wells affected would exhibit change of colour to the water. All sorts of colours were witnessed, but red was predomonant. Giant bubbles would start to break out of the surface of the water and the wells would start to gurgle noisily.
All these were happening at the same time. There were many theories among people. Volcanic activity being the most favorite one. Here is again a piece fro Lois’s findings which may have some relevance to this phenomenon “Louis also discovered that, hours before the first red rain fell, there was a loud sonic boom that shook houses in Kerala. Only an incoming meteorite could have triggered such a blast, he claims”
There has never been any big earth quakes in the region for as far back as any body would remember although geologists were always warning the region was quake prone. Is it possible that a sonic boom as Lois described could cause such internal geological disturbances with such outcome? Some have called Lois’s theory “Bulshit” but the man is said to be “unrepentant”. Here are his final words according to the article
'If anybody hears a theory like this, that it is from a comet, they dismiss it as an unbelievable kind of conclusion. Unless people understand our arguments - people will just rule it out as an impossible thing, that extra-terrestrial biology is responsible for this red rain.'
Read the article at this link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/mar/05/spaceexploration.theobserver
And see the photograph of the alien rain here.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-06/it-raining-aliens
Well it has always been said that India is a land of magic. Now it has turned out to be a land of alien magic. Talk of progress!
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