Month: April 2013

  • Story Scien Outline:

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    Mission: An international terrorist network is at the heart of drug trafficking. The order is to bring it down and hold those responsible.

    Solution: Undercover agent goes rouge in mountainous region rich with drug money and nothing to spend it on.

    Method:

    The agent is ordered to infiltrate the gang’s drug network with middle east, top money connections and offer assistance. The agent is to initiate a  takeover  and enforced with the agency’s information network eliminated the leaders using Al Capone method (made famous in the prohibition era).

    The agent, from a remote location, will direct the international drug dealers ( while informing central command ) with off-line instructions on an external hard drive given to couriers for distribution to the drug network - from a public library or internet cafes. The internet is constantly scanned for communication between factions.

    Reference:

    1. Government using an email “data miner” to tap into worldwide communications. 2. Doc Savage in “Danger Lies East” where it describes a fanatic, hell bent on causing a war in the middle east, using his followers numbering in the millions.3. Metro (Toronto) Newspaper: 2007-12-20, page 16 … describes a way to contact al-sahab, al-qaeda’s media arm.

    Result:

    Organized crime in middle east will appear to strengthen then weaken. Actions will result in any government opening their war chest to combat drug terrorism - relieving monetary stress on their own economy. Any declared war will initialize monetary assistance to the defeated country see WW II examples. ( see also  “Pinky and the Brain” cartoon featuring a US President approached by a factious country ready to declare war on the US. Story results in monetary rewards for country rebuilding if they remain democratic ). “That is if you choose to accept this mission.”

  • Patterns of Beliefs

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    Persian and Palestine Religion

                    Few historians agree on the origins of Christianity in the first century or its triumph in the fourth century.  It was under the kind rule of Persia that the Hebrews restored their kingdom and wrote their bible. The later books of the Old Testament are practically Persian literature not to mention Babylon, Egypt, and Greece.  The Persians came from the Hindu-Persian branch of the Aryan family, from the region of Asia Minor; until they moved to the Mesopotamian plain.  Their holy book, the Zend Avesta or Law Commentaries dictated their way of life – Manicheanism – through priests andAnimism (the animation of nature spirits). Nature religion developed into ethical religions. The Hebrew was hardly civilized when they wandered over the desert from Mesopotamia to the confines of Syria. There is no historical trace of any body of Hebrews in Egypt. The Christian church seems to have borrowed rites and doctrines from the Roman Mithraism. ²

     

    Central America

                    The Mayan scare or “end of the world” has passed the world by without incident.  There was a review of the Indian tribe and the space – alien connection” – still in debate.  The Mayans were reviewed by historians without mention of their beliefs – beyond the issue at hand.  What about their religions? Were they similar to other cultures on the planet till evolving?  Hard facts are hard to obtain but the mind of mankind was still a slave before their better.  Geographical isolation of their country preserves many a culture from evolutionary change. Their war-calendar was based on the cycle of Venus. Maya was the treasurer’s name in Egypt under King Tut. This fact alone questions the pilgrimage of the pre-Columbian Indians over Alaska from Asia.. Their culture remains at five to ten thousand years old at the close of the ice-age.  Their temples remain in Tcotihuacan, Chichen Itza and Uxmal, Mitla, and the pyramids of Cholula and Cuernavaca. They are unique and differ greatly from Egyptian pyramids with radically different hieroglyphics. The Mayans were the first branch of the North, Central and South American Indian race to become civilized. The Mayans were no older than the first century BC. with their cities evolving from the fifth to thirteenth centuries.  Their head priests (Kukulcan) were right up there with the Kings.  The Mayan, Toltec and Aztec Indians with their primitive early religions bear considerable resemblance in a common body of beliefs – Animism.  Thanks to the Spaniards, the Aztec Indian evolved their religion to Christian.  If Christian is the new way of indifference to all worldly beliefs being questioned, what will now become of mankind? ²

     

    • Ancient Summary

                      This sums up tens of thousands of years of one of the most curious and fascinating excursions of the human mind.  This study also brings us to a higher threshold of religious development which we now focus on.  Ergonomics shows the progress of the human mind was gradual, natural and slow.  There is no leap forward caused by “commandments’ amidst thunder and lightning”, or sacred truth scratch by “finger-of -fire” on the minds of any one prophet.  No interference from a superhuman power.  Any impulse or revelation from the universe has yet to be received.  This diplomatic vagueness runs unbroken through the ages.  The priests who wrote the sacred books have to show that their order and ceremonies were instituted at the very beginning of civilization.  The action of their gods must be seen throughout being human nature.  The mass of the people (one-fourth of the human race) are kept in isolated superstition.  They believe their shadow or shade survives death and their world is full of spirits.  The days of its profound, prehistoric ignorance is known as “Animism “- or the animation of nature.  Primitive Buddha had no more religion than Kong-fu-tse.  Later, the Greek philosophers Aristotle, student of Plato; student of Socrates, dealt with this to the degree of authority.   Ethical & natural religions evolved independently.  Nature spirits are not interested in mankind’s social conduct.  All events recorded became authentic, genuine and undeniable history.  The mystery of the Crete language remains undecipherable.to this day.  Crete (one of the three intelligent cultures established after the ice-age) became home to the first true Greek civilization in the second millenium before the birth of Christ. ³

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      Sources:

      ¹  British Fantasy Pics

      ²  “The World’s Great Religions”  by J. McCabe, 1926.

      ³  “The Pocket Essential of Ancient Greece  by M. Paine, 2002

  • Patterns of Worship

    Orient.jpg ¹  The dawn of worship begins from the primitive level.  Mankind moves from a state of society where stronger men or chiefs rule over the majority.  They are regarded as little demi-gods.  Earthly chiefs became princes and had to be flattered and appeased.  They were as powerful as their shadows in the spirit land.  Where is this spirit land?  Where they the shadows, hiding in the dark forests out of sight?  Were they underground in the mountains or up in the sky with the clouds, moon, stars or sun?  This was the dawn of heaven and hell.   Life became more complete what with having to earn the favour of the demi-gods in only the correct and most effective way.  Their crops, life, livestock and success in hunting depend on their worship.  A caste of experts offers their valuable consultant services.  This was the dawn of priesthood.  The existences of spirits are questioned to be replaced by the priests. They resort to invented reasons why sacrifices did not reward to further suggest mankind’s sins were in the way. This was the dawn of  priest craft.  Mankind’s mind continues to grow in speculation of things in motion questioning fire, rain, river flow, storms, thunder and women. Why were animals like the big cats, crocodiles, eagles and sharks powerful?  Why did the corn and trees rise again every year? This was the dawn of fetishism and taboo.   Greater sprits are reintroduced to explain the motions of the broad blue sky, earth, moon, rain, sun, thunder and the wind – all the great elements – must have mighty gods to work them.  This was the dawn of polytheism.   Kings are growing more powerful by war and annexation.  The bigger they make their ruler the godlier they become. One god might take the place of ten.  Rival priests would not sacrifice their gods instead they stirred up trouble between the faithful; to rebel and fight for them.  Rivals were suppressed by a prince listening to their priest before a royal decree was issued, freezing them into a guilt of silence. It was the dawn of monotheism.  As mankind’s mind grew larger and larger, society happened.  Cities were built, books were written and questions were asked tracing the gods to gases, steam, vapours or even priests.  Could they explain all of nature this way?  That was two thousand years ago the dawn of self-awareness or atheism. ²

     

                    Social conduct is important to propagation; so social law becomes a semi-sacred moral law.  It evolves into a religious law dictated by the gods – through the priests.  The priest said all the gods wanted was ceremony, sacrifice and proper support of the priests until they grow more powerful.  Power makes them more leisured and better educated; to better control more of the daily life of ordinary mankind.  The early history of religion is much the same but with differences of climate, economic conditions and location moving through polytheism, monotheism and towards atheism.  Archeologists study religion as impartially as other scientists study stars or economic systems with great care.  The supposed historical parts of the Chinese, the Hebrew, the Hindu and the Persian sacred writings uncover the material remains of old religious civilizations.  The later and higher evolution of religion is much more interesting than the earlier.  Instead of naive speculation about the universe, on the part of some profoundly ignorant race, a stream of human thought was dammed and diverted by priesthoods for an age that is until reformation poured in.  The substitution of one god (monotheism) for many (polytheism) was natural and occurred before the first of the Hebrew prophets was born.³

     

    Dawn of Chinese Civilization

              Civilization appeared in the west of Asia about 2,700 BC with the Babylonian civilization. East Asia was influenced by the simple Mongolian tribes (Chukchees, Yukaghirs, Karyaks and Ainu) around or within the Chinese frontiers.  Twenty-five hundred (2500) years ago, amidst decay and confusion, two Agnostic sages (Lao-tse and Kong-fu-tse) began reaching China with “Confucius” and “Taoism” (before it got mixed up with ritualistic Buddhism) an Agnostic code of morality – as high as any in the world.  For two thousand years, it has been the standard of Chinese gentlemen but has never taken a religious format.  Therefore, the conservative Asiatic mind reached religious evolution, both in China and India, over two thousand years before the Europeans of the Mediterranean even began to approach it.  The dawn of the Agnostic moral culture shows the Chinese scholars reaching the last term of religious evolution, ages before any other body of educated people in the world.  The Chinese language is unique in that it has no alphabetic letters.  Each word is a separate character requiring several years of study learning the tens of thousands of characters.  The bulk of the Chinese culture is therefore condemned by the very unique nature of its own language keeping it ignorant, isolated and in primitive superstition. ²

     

    India’s Religion

                    The ancient literature of the Hindus, written in Sanskrit, enabled scholars to learn long ago they were related to the Mediterranean and Persians.  Thirty-three hundred years ago a treaty was drawn up describing Hindu and Persian divinities separating; until the warriors saw the fertile plains of Hindustan.  Their sacred books called the Vedas from 1000 BC, allowed the scholars to generalize a local religion based on Animism (nature worship) attributed to the Dravidian- Aryan, or the common fathers of the Celts, Greeks, Hindus, Persians, Romans, Slavs and Teutons.  Tribes such as the Todas and Khasis numbered approximately ten million people, 216 million Hindus, 68 million Mohammedans, 11 million Buddhists, 3 million Sikhs, 1 million Jains, 3 million Christians, and small numbers of other religions.  Seven centuries before Christ, the priests of the Hindu religion called themselves Brahmans.   The supreme principle of Brahma is the religion of the educated Hindus today and is sold as a commodity at high profit in American markets as, “the Wisdom of the East.”  The vast majority of India’s people are either unconcerned or incapable of understanding this new development.  It is based on a phase of speculation or metaphysics of a crude nature spirit.  Buddha (the enlightened) was originally called Gautama and was the son of chief or small prince, born about 560 BC.  He wandered as a teacher gathering disciples diverting them away from religion.  Buddha was like Kong-fu-tse, a pure humanitarian and Agnostic moralist referred to later as an Atheist.  He rejected all religion, denied the existence of a soul but believed in reincarnation, acknowledged suffering as a way of life, marketed universal charity and kindness to all beings.  These teachings, gave Buddha the highest note of ethics – five centuries before Christ. ²

     

    Modern Asian Religion

         Within the last century, the Chinese people were given an alphabet.  A better understanding of their language improved their communication and learning beyond their borders.  The Chinese learned to read in a few weeks. Great changes are expected.  Japanese culture is borrowed from the Chinese Taoism and referred to as “Shintoism” within the ritualistic Buddhism.  With eight million gods it is the old Mongolian nature and spirit worship.  Educated Japanese use a moral standard of Confucianism – remaining Agnostic.  The Japanese sacred book of “Bushido” is merely a collection of moral sentiments culled from many sources – including the Bible.  The Japanese middle-class, after studying European religion, opted to stay with Buddhism. This is the dawn of the modern linking-up of the globe entirely altering the conditions of language and religious isolation²

     

    Sources:

    ¹  British Fantasy Pics

    ²  “The World’s Great Religions”  by J. McCabe, 1926.

    ³  “The Pocket Essential of Ancient Greece  by M. Paine, 2002

     

  • Creative Pondering

    DOLLAR genie  Source: British Fantasy Pics

    Product Review using platform: Windows 95 Software

          Life coaches show us how the patient or client is the solution to their own problem (usually alcoholism) but what about the really big ones – the collective problems shared by all? The world, as we know it, is faced with many planetary economic emergencies. Examples include rising consumer debt and international monetary bail-outs. A hands-on solution might be required for the intelligent computer user. This BCI software was developed by Dr. R. Horowitz under the title, “Invention Highway” (1999). The concept was introduced by a russian and his helper – G. Altshuller and G. Filkovski.

         The animated program shows “patterns in creative solutions” to a dozen different problems; Chain, chess, coin, mail, propulsion, etc. The games  focus simplicity towards genius. The learning chapters explain the solutions of breaking unity, division, multiplication and unification. After obtaining permission from the manufacturer, the user could utilize the software in a money generating enterprise – Intelligence or Emotional Quotient testing for corporate human resources or personnel. Imagine walking in for an IQ interview test and passing the thing with flying colours!! 

         The first and most important thing to learn, is the “thought processes” in the minds of people and firms that need and lend money. A consultant works with the management improving the performance, profitability and goals of the company. Working with the top leadership to alter the direction of a company, the consultant is a valuable and highly paid individual. Many consultants charge in excess of $100 per hour. Others charge several hundred dollars for their services. Others work on an annual retainer fee of $12,000 to over $30,000 per year, from each of any number of large corporations. The consultant or coach therefore requires only a few customers per month to maintain a living. A consultant is an expert at recognizing problems. A coach helps shape solutions to those problems. All it takes to move on this one is an empathy for people and a basic  understanding of money-management – in the key language of commerce.  

  • Ghosts in the Fog

     A NewThinker.jpg Room of Knowledge( British Fantasy Pics )

         On the subject of ghosts, according to “Beyond Magazine” of 1951, death is not the end of everything. Normally, mankind decides how long they wish to live – pending misfortune.  The old belief, similar to the Egyptian, that the soul survives death and was rewarded for its virtues; carries over to a modern perspective. This shows another life existing after shedding a mortal coil, where the spirit will either reap the reward for good deeds or be forced to accept the punishment for their evil.  Body burial in similar surroundings, allows access to others in the same privative state of being or decaying state of health.  Before passing into the peaceful beyond, the ghost’s evils must be addressed. How the other ghosts learn of the truth is questionable.  Judgment by the ghost’s peers (those wrongfully accused) takes place.  The soul is torment throughout eternity until the conscious is cleared by truth administered to by the accused ghost.  Escape is limited by a foot anchor near the grave site.  Punishment is further in demand by righting the wrong caused (finding the source of evidence) or be cursed to roam the regions of lost souls tormented - forever.  Ghosts can cause wind - only as they could in the living – to move objects.  By speaking, ghosts can create an urge for another living person to do something through the power of suggestion.  Ghosts go their separate ways: some are doomed to wander thè Earth without rest, seeking to right any wrong against innocent victims of false accusations; as a final punishment.  The Harpy, is part of a group of foul, malion creatures – part woman, part bird – that snatch away the souls of victims.  Harpies live a world of stench and filth and contaminate everything that comes near them.  If a mortal person  manages to privatize (kill) a harpy, the Harpy ceases to exist in any form – freeing the souls the Harpy collected.  Ghosts are not frightened.  They are affected by the full moonlight since they dwell in the dark side.  The ghost protects their realm of death – where they died.  Ghosts cannot see past fiery lights so, it is used to force the ghost to return to its tomb.  The words of death are questioned because the spirit of death has no lips or tongue from which to speak the words.  Teeth chatter in Morse code maybe?  Guilty secrets entrusted to death are not buried forever.  Death deals out fright by having the guilty ones face the person they murdered.  Only the dead can save someone from the dead.  A cursed spirit never dies.  The anniversary of the happenings might determine a review, confirming the happening of the tragedy. Change could alter the present of the past with intervention from the future!?  Television channel  Hades suggest the dead have power over the living in the judgment of justice for all; dead and living … or was it just lonesome in death?  If a crime has taken place resulting in a privative state of being then, ghosts tend to reappear as warning.  Ghost clones ( fog creatures or mind vampires ) can assume the shape of anyone for short periods and draw intelligence and thoughts from the brain of anyone who comes within their power yet, they have no physical strength. Could be a source of the Bermuda or Devil’s Triangle, eh?  Ghosts are the thought of the unquiet dead. Stolen treasure receives a curse until it is returned to the dead.. The curse calls for torture, haunting and retention of the soul of the thief – to guard the blood money treasure.  Revenge occurs if  power is stolen from a dead spirit.  There is ghostly revenge for an accident coverup. Ghosts hang out in rock-stone-gardens (graveyard). 

         Metaphysics is a philosophical outlook that strives to answer the world’s unexplained mysteries.  Metaphysicians focus on different disciplines of paranormal research.  Ghost Hunters are specialized paranormal researchers focusing on reasons spirits or energies exist where found.

         Today, the Ancient’s “Animism” could represent the personification and animation of anything. (3) Who or what can enter this spirit world? If the spirit is the same as a ghost then, it is reasoned  that there is no place in a spirit world for the unmourned privative ( a state of being leading to death) being. Because of this oversight, that spirit was sentenced to forever roam thè Earth for eternity. The spirit was to be unseen, unheard, unfelt and unknown by any living  thing. The spirit floating out of the body could function as a normal in their spirit world with restrictions in real world contact. The ability to hear in both the world of the living and dead was not impeded. The ghost does walk among the living, sometimes as a protector (using static shock for attention), without the need for hunger or pleasures of life; this suggests a dimension or another reality within a conscious nothingness.  Sometimes the ghost seeks the answer to the questions of existence of living bodies without spirits or  living spirits without bodies.  Sometimes an evil ghosts find another ghost/body in transition because of a disease, illness or surgery. The evil ghost attempts to steal the body – to return to the living. This is referred to as the “dark side”.  If someone were basically good, then only a “black enchantment” or slavery could make them evil. “Life through death” occurs  in many forms: organ cleaning, defibrillation using electric shock, stem cell-growth research, organ transplant, etc.  They are  all subject to body rejection / acceptance. The evil ghost / assumed body snatcher, can now communicate with both worlds. The ghost separated from his body can only talk in the spirit world until the spirit regains control. Characterization is assumed by the evil spirit – leaving behind all other traces of his discarded self.  To vanquish the evil spirit that has taken over the host body of another, the options include killing the body to release the spirit or direct contact with the Hindu Mazobulabula, the great thousand eyed spirit of space ( one of the 5,000 or 7,000 Hindu-Entities ). A fight will ensue for control – evil is weak without the element of surprise. The evil ghost failing their test to “rise above it all” or “reincarnate”, continues to wander over thè Earth, forever seeking but never finding release from their eternal wanderings.  An unholy transmigration or disembodied spectral form / spirit imagined while asleep, is viewed later as a nightmare. 

         Metaphysical Philosophy Professor Jaspers says, “The first experience of existenz is unrest because it is orientated toward reason as transcendence. Transcendence becomes an independent cause in the world; because existenz did not create itself. Transcendence, under the needling questioning of reason, comes into its own authentic movement. Without reason, transcendence becomes an inactive, demonic defiance; sleeping as an unconscious nothingness – as though not there.”¹

         Comments after recovery called it “post-traumatic stress disorder” or “post operative shock” or “generalized anxiety disorder”.² Cures range from relaxation techniques – hypnosis, subliminal programming, psychotherapy – cognitive psychology behavioral, cybernetics or even dianetics.

    Sources:

    ¹ “Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sarte” by W. Kaufmann, 1956

    ² Saunder’s Pocket Essentials of Psychiatry” by Puri, 1995

     

  • Psychiatry – Forensic Psychology

    Visions.jpg British Fantasy pics

         While searching for the Jeckle and Hyde disorder; caused by an alcohol related disability, with psychiatric complications or multiple personality disorders in a medical book, I discovered something of interest for the questioning, probing mind-melder.

         In Psychiatry, there are several classifications of disorders under several group headings; adolescence, delusional, mood, organic, personality, physical factors, psychoactive substance use, psychological, special-minds, stress related and the one unspecified or unknown.

         A pearl describing amphetamines, cocaine and ectasy use says that diagnosed chest pains in a middle-class patient wearing running shoes and casual clothing is a cocaine induced coronary vasopasm. Now, what do expensive  running shoes and casual clothing have to do with being middle-class, eh? Even autism is described as being isolated to children up to the age of thirty months only! 

    Source:
    1.Gross’s Kriminal Psychologie, 1910.

    2.Saunder’s Pocket Essentials of Psychiatry/page 117 – ICD-10 Classsification/1995.

    3.Lang’s Essentials of Diagnosis & Treatment,second edition/page 482/2002.

  • PseudoScience

    Visions.jpg ( British Fantasy Pics )

    Zeitpeist is a time spirit. Important Pseudosciences include Pendelforschung – Pendulum Research, Hohlweltlehre – Hollow Earth Doctrine, Welteislehre or WEL – translated to World Ice Doctrine, and Arissophy under founder Dr. Jorg Lanz von Liebenfals. A group calling themselves the Wahrheitsgesellachaft  or the Society for Truth said these dream reasonings; which were based on Bible passages said for reasons that led to the war, “Humanity is the result of a forbidden mixture of angels and animals. Each person has a small percentage of angel and large percentage of (party) animal (astrology).”

    During WWII, certain Nazi Germany Naval circles supported the Pendelforschung,  Hohlwelt-lehre and the Welteislehre. They used infrared equipment. (Allies then developed the radar.) Now, modern computers can transfer data between units using an infra-red technology pass.

    Source: Astounding Science Fiction 1947-05

  • Pssst! I’ve got a secret

    Room of Knowledge British Fantasy Pics

     

    When it comes to keeping a secret¹ like a football play-book; correct procedure in such circumstances is difficult. Never to reveal what is already known is to deprive oneself of one of the most important means of examination; use of it therefore ought not to be belated. It is much worse to be premature or garrulous.

     

    In my own experience, I have never been sorry for keeping silent, especially if I have already said something. The only rule in the matter is comparatively self-evident. Never move toward any incorrectness and never present the appearance of knowing more than you actually do. Setting aside the dishonesty of such a procedure, the danger of a painful exposure in such matters is great. Official Secrets(see section 2A of the Official Secrets Act- Britain)²have a general significance, and must therefore be guarded at all points and not merely in detail.

     

    Proverbs of all people deal with it and point mainly to the fact that keeping secrets is especially difficult for women. The Italians say a woman who may not speak is in danger of bursting; the Germans say that the burden of secrecy affects a woman’s health and ages her prematurely; the English say similar things still more coarsely. Classical proverbs have dealt with the issue; numberless fairy tales, narratives, novels and poems have portrayed the difficulty of silence, and one very fine modern novel (Die Last des Schweigens, by Ferdinand Krnberger) has chosen this fact for its principal motive. The universal difficulty of keeping the silence is expressed in the dictum that we learn expression very young and silence very late.

     

    There is still another great danger which one may beware of, optima fide,or the danger of knowing something untrue. One need only suggest that something is but maybe learned from people who talk too much. In as much as the least echo of bad faith is here impossible, the job is never easy. In many cases, the reasons for confession are very obvious. The criminal sees that the evidence is so complete that they are soon to be convicted and seek a mitigation of the sentence by confession, or they hope through a more honest narration of the crime to throw a great degree of the guilt on another. In addition there is a thread of vanity in confession. Not infrequently confession of small crimes is made to establish an alibi for a greater one. When the confession is made freely in response to mere pressure, we have a case of conscience. Edgar Allen Poe calls such confessions pure perversities,(a modern psychologism call this paraphilictendencies)³.

     

    But the theory of stupidity or muddle,(a modern psychologism meaning a conceptual disorganisation)³ does not appeal to the practitioner. Even if we agree that a person foolishly makes a confession and later, when they perceive their mistake, bitterly regret telling it. One way of explaining them is to say that their source is mere stupidity and involves a defective intelligence. The confession was made because the confessor wanted to make it, and that’s the whole story. As a matter of caution all statutes approve confessions as evidence, only when they agree completely with the other evidence. Confession is a means of proof, and not proof.

     

    Source:

    1.  “Criminal Psychology- A Manual for Judges,Practionersand Students”,   Section 8.Secrets./byHans Gross, J. U. D., page 28- 1909.

    2.  “The Yes Minister Miscellany”/by A. Jay & J. Lynn,page 70- 2009.

    3.  “The Bluffer’s Guide to Psychology”- ReverseGlossary/by Warren Mansell, page 63- 2005.