Saturday, January 18, 2025

Flying

Flying
Posted on June 7, 2011 


I was very fond of flying.
I could have ended up as a good Flying Officer (not a fighter pilot) and I had all the right ingredients but I came close to it.


The day my father took a flight to India on good old Air Ceylon (Avro, I believe) and watched the the take off from the Air Control Tower, I new I was going to fly a lot.
I never told anybody especially my father (he would have never allowed me) but did my own survey and found that it was humanly possible for me to break in without a big connection.
I gave up that idea.
However, even though I did biology I made it a point to offer applied mathematics (I was very good in my mathematics and in fact I beat all the maths students from my biology class) and mathematics, in case one day fortune favours me.


Then of course moment I passed out and confirmed in service I applied for Volunteer Air force but I was not enlisted.


I had all the qualifications including physical and sports and was sure of getting enlisted.
When final selection came guy who was almost one foot short was selected and I was not even called for the interview.
Then when I did my own search and I found that somebody had a hand in not forwarding  my application to the board.


Not only that somebody was enlisted without maths and applied mathematics (he was unceremoniously thrown out later after having being in Uniform for many years). I do not know who instigated his fall but I made a decision I will chuck the Government Service moment I finish my compulsory service, which I did with my father’s vehement protest.


That decision I always cherish and three months after the compulsory service I left the service for good saying myself I will never join it again.
I had been in service I would have ended up in a regrettable high post where corrupt practices are the norm.


The cost of my first flight to UK one way was less than Rs.4000/= and luckily for me  by then my brother who scooted off before me without a red cent in his hand was very well settled abroad and not married too.
It took another almost five years for me to get all the training in accident and emergency service to qualify to become a flying doctor (before I changed my course radically to enter academic sphere) and my last job abroad had a quota of flying doctor and doctor for horse racing (I liked horse racing more than flying) if I was not otherwise engaged officially.


But before that I have flown from Northern Hemisphere to Southern Hemisphere on my own money and I never got a free ticket or a free ride but I never could qualify as a frequent flyer like most of the Arabs and American CEOs.


What could not dream here in spite all qualifications I could do it in a foreign country down under.


Funnily enough now I hate flying mainly because of the pricing of the tickets
which has not come down in spite of stock market crisis and fall.
 

I always flew on my own money and never ever taken a red cent (I am entitled) from government coffers unlike our MP who go on entourage (rather pilgrimage) and make a mess out of our foreign affairs.


That is something my family is very proud of.
 

It is  shame to fly on public money and that is a norm today.

Simply Mepis

Simply Mepis
Posted on August 14, 2010
 
Simply Mepis is one of the distributions I have installed in my laptop and desktop on a regular and permanent basis.
The other is Berry Linux. 
I must confess that I use them for demonstration of cute little distributions and not for daily work.

(Edited today 15-08-2010)
I think I have touched upon some intuition.
What is written below was before the download of Mepis DVD.
Thanks to Guys and Girls in Mepis for sweeper (which I call a Mind Sweeper).

Making me happy Mepis has introduced a package named Sweeper to clean up the system.
It is a welcome I had being waiting for a long time. 
I had been doing this manually until now even with PCLinux.

This utility should be developed into MinD Sweeper for others to follow.
I use PCLinux (now 2o10-01) on daily basis and it does not give any problem because it has the nice habit of deleting unnecessary files in tmp on a regular basis (at boot up) and there is no clutter or clogging due to large log files (large log files that are essential for a server and should not be used obsessively in a desktop.

I of course on a regular basis look at the available memory after three or four downloads and having archived the images delete big files keeping the distribution robust and up to date.

Whereas my wife and daughter who also use two different (both PCLinux-2009) desktops on a regular basis come up to me saying that Linux sucks memory since they download many photos and like files.

Luckily I have not given them the administrative rights and when things are bad in five minutes I clean up the unnecessary files and get the box running like new.

The cardinal mistakes everybody makes is that, not running the box over 24 hours at least occasionally and to let the Cron jobs run. that do the clean up jobs in servers and desktops.

This is something that Linux desktop developers should look at and develop cron jobs, akin to frequent savings in office utilities.

I think a utility of this nature is essential for laptops.

What they should do is to send a message at random fashion while when the desktop is being used and asking the user whether it is safe to activate the cron jobs (name it the clean up jobs) without compromising the downloading and downloaded files still in the tmp.

Sorry for the diversion but I feel this piece of advice is vital for the newbies.

Coming back to Mepis it is one of the best distributions in a single CD and has everything one needs and sometimes things that are missing in PCLinux.

That is why I use them for some special occasions.

Mepis has a new DVD and bit 32 and 64 versions, I am currently downloading them and write few lines about them soon (having tested them).

Mepis is something one ought to have to get the fresh and Debian feel like Morphis.

Spacesuit and its Occupant

Spacesuit and its Occupant
Posted on February 9, 2011 

Mind this is an introduction for anybody who is running short of an idea to write about in WordPress blogging site.

This is an idea I hit upon by reading a blog writing of a experienced civil pilot not a fighter pilot.

Have you ever thought of the 50 things that the spacesuit occupant in space won’t share with his body soul?

You probably have not but I was one who was very much interested in this in my school days and in early days as medical student.

I cannot remember what I wrote then but this is an attempt to revise some of those physiological constraints not in particular order or in any order of merits.

Suffice is to say I get a sickly feeling when I think of space (occupied especially by alien elements).

Imagine yourself trapped in a escalator without illumination (light) and the computer circuit controlling the up and down movements gone haywire and it is going up and down in an erratic fashion.

That is a the feeling I get moment I put on a spacesuit for travel.

That is one thing you must consider when paying for, an enormous amount for a single trip in space.

Is is worth the experience and the money?


Probably not but having said that I have tremendously high regard for those guys who trained for years end on to go to space
They are a dedicated lot and give them the due respect they deserve if you happen to meet anyone of them.

They were the human guinea pigs in space.


I often wonder how many times they felt sick and vertiginous even in their sleep.

Probably many many times and uncountable and that is the feeling I get if I am invited to wear a spacesuit and come hither for a go.

I will list the feeling inside my head with little imagination and some understanding of my own physiology if not of another being.

1. I hate the space constraint
This is the feeling one gets if one has to stay in a tiny hotel room in Singapore overnight due to some delay, cancellation or transit. I have had that feeling once or twice traveling by cheap air flights (a budget air line or Mihin -Hemin- Lanka. When you fly on a good wide-body aircraft it is reasonably OK.

2. I hate heights. Imagine you are in a hotel overnight on the 21st floor room due to flight cancellation. You are well away from a fire exit and there is a blackout and fire drill. 
You don’t have a pen torch
If you are on floor one, you can think of jumping out and breaking your legs but not on 21st Floor. 
That is why rooms are cheap as you go up. 
Please pay a good some and ask for a room down below. It is better even if you go to Colombo taking a pen torch with you with these high rising development projects. 
Born to this earth with feet firmly grounded and ample space to breath pristine air (not now even in Kandy) as an embodiment, getting into a spacesuit is the luxury I do not want to avail myself not even in my incarnation.

3. Now about the daily routines I enjoy. Sleep to begin with. I think I can manage sleep upside down on space inside a spacesuit since there is nothing else I can do there except dreaming coming home
I can do this since I have learned how to sleep standing on an express bus plying from Kandy to Colombo on a Monday morning. I believe all Sri-Lankans are good at this. Only if you do not have money in your back pocket. There are plenty of pickpockets in this country including politicians who pick our vote without our knowledge. 
They are called pick-votters or even better pick-potters (stuffing the ballot boxes).
These two are new words, I have coined for the Oxford Dictionary with local elections due now).

4. What about food. I won't enjoy the high calorie, high protein dehydrated      food-fads of space travelers especially they are floating about and not placed on a plate with a well laid out nice table
My worry is not the quality of food but how am I to partake them in a more sociable way. 
Not empty them to my mouth from paper carton after paper carton.

5. Coming to spirits (if they are allowed like a commercial flight) and drinks. When I suck (not drink them) a little, I want them to stay a while in the mouth and esophagus and stomach and not go flushing down like a vacuum cleaner on full throttle to the colon, in one go..

6. After meal I want to brush my teeth as my good dental friends tell me with a tooth brush floating in air and the toothpaste all over the face with me trying to reach as far as it goes to the third molar.

7. That also I can manage but how about a quick spend a penny in the loo with my prostrate pushing hard on the correct track inside but the squirt getting between my spacesuit and the underwear
That is my major worry since I will never master my physiology how ever much I train on earth and mid air.

8. Then the master job of course I have decided one last one here and never in the shuttle till I come home and take some constipating medicare one a week before the departure. I do not want my smelly secrets floating in air and taking pictures of me in flight.

No thank you.

9. Last but not least I fear the algae and the fungi I have been accustomed on earth and living with me with mutual understanding all along my life for years taking advantage of the flight and growing all over me. 
In nails, wind pipe, mouth and all of my privates.

10. Last of all I love scratching my skin, just for fun and any other accessible point from my crown to the rump. 
With these fungi floating around and waiting for a breach, I won’t be able enjoy that luxury.

11. As for the rubbish I collect on flight no problem. We are trained to drop at any advantage point in the town and the Municipalities never clean them. I just open the window and drop it down when we are centering round Sri-Lanka with a note stating “coming from space shuttle in orbit no valuables dropped but destined for Sri-Lankans”.

This is why when President Obama invited me for a flight in space, I refused and gave over 100 volunteers from our parliament elected and wanting to get elected. He of course refused nay for parliamentarians after the Health bill was bailed out out.

Stux

Stux

Origin: Italy
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: 
Blackbox, 
Fluxbox, 
KDE, 
WindowMaker
Architecture: x86
Based on: Knoppix, Slackware
Wikipedia:
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: 2.0 | June 5, 2007

Stux – a LiveDistro (CD) Linux distribution from Italy which is based on Slackware and Knoppix. 
Deployment can automatically load and save configurations and files on writable partitions.

The live system provides a combination of packages of Slackware Linux and kernel, modules and scripts of Knoppix. It includes automatic hardware detection and supports a vast majority of graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals.

STUX allows a full system configuration and usage through the STUX-Utilities, an unique, easy-to-use graphical interface specifically designed for STUX distribution.

Slackware users can use and configure STUX as they have always done with normal Slackware installations.

STUX GNU/Linux supports i386 platform and features Blackbox, Fluxbox, WindowMaker and KDE desktop environments on a single CD.

Version 0.5.3 was launched on December 16, 2003, the last version 2.0 was launched on June 5, 2007.

CYBERPARANOIA

 CYBERPARANOIA
Tux, STUX, D.E.F.T, M.A.D and C.W.F (Cyberwarfare), Cyberparanoia and Stuxnet

Posted on November 5, 2011

New vocabulary is entering general use with cyber attacks  becoming preemptive at international stage. I am not going to be expressive here  since hackers (they) might think my IP address is some defense attaché and attack with D.O.S (Denial of Service Attack).
Cyber space is free but it is not is not a fair play ground for a simple academic like me to engage in, who is nearer to the grave by natural causes and  do not need any interference to my intellectual exercises unless, incapacitated by natural illness or loss of memory.

I am disturbed by the use of TuX in Stuxnet and this Simple Linux Guy (S.M.G) whom I adore. 
His girls are Penny and Gown.

Stuxnet is the Virtual attack that was directed at Iran’s nuclear reactors.

Tux is a penguin character and the official Mascot of the Linux kernel
Originally created as an entry to a Linux logo competition, Tux is the most commonly used icon for Linux, although different Linux Distributions depict.
Tux in various styles. In video games featuring the character, female counterparts, named Penny and Gown, accompany him. 
The character is used in many other Linux programs and as a general symbol of Linux.
STUX
STUX is a bootable CD with a collection of software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and U.S.B devices and other peripherals.
STUX also contains an installation wizard on the Live CD for putting the distribution on a Pendrive and thereby booting from it. 
However, a 1GB pen drive is required to do this which is far larger than other U.S.B Linux distributions.
DEFT is a Linux distribution with Digital Evidence and Forensic Investigations tools attached.
 
It is not at military level but at simple desktop or server level.

I was trying to download (point to point) it and I have failed in 5 attempts now due to abrupt termination of service.

MAD is Mutually assured Destruction
Mutual Assured Destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and National Security Policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction.
 
C.W.F is Cyberwarfare
There are very interesting articles and one who interested in can browse but suffice is to say even an innocent device like Play Station can be used for an attack.
Other interesting point is that proprietary operating system with the O.E.M guys can use a device to send secret message to the company or the country’s National security for spying on your web activities.

This is why I am strongly against Windows 8 attempt to invade and intrusion of One’s Freedom of Use (O.F.U).
Cyberparanoia is the word I coin today to describe this phenomenon from a doctors point of view.
That is my contribution to the jargon and vocabulary.

Can one be anonymous in the Wider Web?

 Saturday, November 5, 2011
 
Can one be anonymous in the Wider Web?
 
Below was comment (by me) to a dad who was trying to keep him and his son in anonymity which is impossible.
 
Moment one open page one loses one's privacy and also integrity if one writes something sadistically.

Causing pain to an animal who is defenseless whether at home or in sport is a sadistic behaviour.

I agree with the dad being anonymous for the sake of his son but his I.P. address is known by all and sundry.
One cannot hide it unless one has a virtual network but that again is in relative sense and even the virtual network's outlet is visible.
 
What I am saying is that the browser watches your every move.

In the web one cannot protect the privacy.
Then there is Cyber crime at global scale.
I have coined a word Cyberpranoia today.

One should not be paranoid to the extent that one shuns the use of Internet and humour.
Like music is essential human ingredient but unfortunately some kids cannot take gross and cruel humour.
No son can give degree to the pain it causes to the animal it is illogical.
 
Pain is pain whatever the degree.

My dog hate even the slightest of pain.
I have never hit him or punish him.
He has learned what is good and what is bad and unlike human behave more appropriately.
Lapses are very rare.
Nobody at my home ill treat him and he grew up with them.
From the time he inhabited our house there had not been any  violent arguments.
He takes the side of the oppressed and has become our trusted and good referee.
He hates pain (every living  being's entitlement) and violent arguments.
Visit my site parafox and asokaplus for Cyber crimes (posted today).
  

Friday, January 17, 2025

A book on Current Global Medical Practice

 A book on Current Global Medical Practice

Yes, I have decided to write a book exposing some of the sordid methods medical guys and girls dish out.

For over 25 years I have refrained from practicing medicine.
I have collected large number of first hand information.
Some cardinal cases are in my books at Amazon's. I do not think a practicing doctor would never do.
It is bit like a Big Mafia, in general sense.

However, there are lot of good doctors. 
They do work in Government O.P.D. outlets day in and day out 
These guys working in government outlets deserve accolades. 
I can remember one of my students (female) who was dedicated to these patients and even neglect her own health.

I had to intervene and refer her to a consultant and told her that she should take some break and well deserved rest.

I am not referring to them.

I am referring to the guys who are inclined to make money in the side. Ones who say the dispensary does not have the medicine in stock (putting the blame on the Government) and request the patients to come to his / her residence for proper medicine (of course pilfered from the O.P.D).
There are also poorly trained Meditation guys doing similar business things.

This is a global problem.

Idea is to make a fast buck like in the stock market.

Let me start with me.
I developed a huge renal stone.
When the repeat X-Ray was done there was a Genio-Urinary Guy in the hospital who wanted to operate immediately. He was a young guy. I told him I want come to you and know better guys. I had second opinion and we decided to sit on it. 
It eventually passed out without complications, not even urinary infections.
I did a survey on the young guy mentioned above and found that he was collecting cases to practice for his MD examination.
He did not last in the University Unit.

The second case is Coronavirus vaccination.
Within 10 days of the first dose of vaccination, I developed nasty myocarditis.
This is Moderna Vaccine
Not only that it affected all my skeletal muscles. The adjuvant they used caused the side effects.
I immediately published a book on Coronavirus Vaccine Side Effects.
Each symptom and sign I recorded on this blog site including the stress ulcer on my forearm. I have many pieces on coronavirus on this blog site.
All due tho me  believing this Anthony Fausi Guy
I believe he should be prosecuted for medical negligence including his co-workers.
I have even published a book on Cytokines and  Interleukins). 
 
This vaccine exited these Cytokines.
 
Over 20 million died globally as a result of the Vaccine.
WHO has hushed up this issue.
 
There is a rigid protocol for new vaccines.
 
It takes nearly 20 years for a safe vaccine to be produced.
It is an uphill task.
AI or a computer software cannot do it in a hurry.
 
Medicine is a Hard Ball Game.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Buddha and the Alien Races

 Buddha and the Alien Races

Buddha was an Enlightened Human Being.

Buddhism does not exclude possibility of traveling Space and Time. 
 
In fact, Buddha had visited Thusita Heaven to recite Dhamma to his mother Maha Maya.

Buddhist Cosmology is different from Hindu Cosmology.

In Buddhism Devas or Gods are those who have obtained Jhana States above 4. That is from 5 to 8. 
Humans can attain Jhana states up to 4 which are transient blissful states
somewhat of the Tibetan Tradition of Meditation. 
One does not need to understand the Dhamma Principles to attain these states. 
 
In my opinion, these meditation states are total waste of time.
 
I have discussed them in my book coming soon in print  not digital " Business Enterprise of Meditation ".

The Dyana Pala they consume are above 4 are real blissful states of happiness. These blissful states are transient and as if one has consumed his or her credit score, (Fixed Deposits), they fall back to animal life and very rarely come back to human world as humans.

Being born as a human is a incredible state but many of us do not use this less than 100 year time period for good use.
Be mindful of that fact.

This piece is not related to Dhamma but to types of beings of our contemporary history of about 5000 years.
 
In Hindu Culture there are three Gods.
Rama
Ravana
Vishnu
 
In Ceylonese Buddhist Culture they are
Yaksha
Naga
Deva

Ordinary Devas
These Devas are up to 6 in our rendering and they are born of Good Karma but do not have Dyana States mentioned above. 
They are actually jealous of the Real Devas mentioned above who have only a trace of jealousy among themselves. 
Real Devas do not fight among themselves, but respect the hierarchical system. 
They live for aeons and only when the total Good Kamma is consumed and when one is moved down the Rebirth Cycle, that next in line takes the command that is left by the predecessor.

This is very complicated system and I wish not be born as a Deva in my next life.

Coming to our Commoner Garden Devas they are almost like alien beings.
They love to posses a tree, a mountain range, a water body and some even flaming forests. 
That is they would like to exercise their power and their greed, just like humans.
 
Inferiority complex of some sort.

There is lot of talks about Devas when Buddha was trying to gain enlightenment.
I have outlined them in my book Buddhist Cosmology having perused Abhidhamma texts
You are free to read them and I am not an expert on Gods but I have extracted them from old Buddhist texts.

Yaksha
Ravana come to my mind.
He of course kidnapped Sita.

Now Buddha had visited Ceylon many a times to stop warring factions of Yakha, Naga and Deva is common folklore.

Naga
This piece is really about Aliens of the Reptilian Type
They are among us. 
If one look at previous Presidents of USA one gets a real preview. 
I won't name them but they are basically War Mongers.
Jimmy Carter is not one of them but was one who worked hard for peace among humans.

DRACO the Lizard People who live in Dulce Base. They are the ruling Class.
Did genetic experiments and created Hybrid People.
 
I think, if President Donald Trump emulates Jimmy Carter, I will place him and pass him as a real human being.

When we come to British Prime Ministers most of them are Reptilians by nature and in genetics.

I will leave it at that.

Less I talk about Germans, Belgians and Europeans it is better for the Human race.
Just remember what they did to Africans.

I would finish with one statement which would make Sinhalayas very angry with me. 
That is necessary for the sake of completeness.
 
We descended from Lions is a mythology.
As far as we know there were no Lions' artifacts in Ceylon. 
Of course, we have had many types from the Cat Family and some of them are  of indigenous.

The term Hela (mountain) had become Si-Hela and Sinhaya and Sinhalaya.
 
Si probably meaning far away or in the distant hills.
 
It may be from Sri, the term we adopted from Hindu Culture.
 
It is like Kanda (mountain) becoming Kandy.
 
History, by all means and purposes is a cock and bull story.
It is not worth wasting time on history.
History is always written by the victors but our ancient kings did not erase the name of Elara
 
Tamils were fully integrated in our culture (look at the names of food and articles (Kudei), many coming from Tamil and the food habits), until British invaded us and used the divide and conquer rule.
 
We fell into British Trapping.

Our last king was a Tamil King.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

American Politics, British Diplomacy and Buddha’s Intelligent Inquiry-Kalama Sutta

American Politics, British Diplomacy and Buddha’s Intelligent Inquiry-Kalama Sutta

Posted on February 8, 2012 

If I have not read Kalama Sutta by the age of 16 years, I  may have, to begin with, would have been caught up and swallowed by the rationalist (almost nonfunctional today in this irrational country Sri-Lanka) deliberates.

There are 13 qualifications, one has to apply if one is an open inquirer.

So read Kalama Sutta before reading this.

I ended up as an independent thinker, never believing anything what the white man said.

We were under 500 years of foreign invader influence, it is probably inbuilt in my system not to believe them and probably many Sri-Lankan of today have lost that inbuilt defense we had, especially the politicians (Ranil Wicramsinghje is the best example)  and political refuges who leave and become prisoners of conscience.

I can dispense with British easily.
In about 6 months in Britain, I realized that what they say is not what they mean.
That included medical men, too.

This is at ground zero level where most of us end up in Britain.

In diplomatic level they do it in a professional manner and unlike the ordinary British who survive on a meager salary, they are paid very well.

How better or brazenly one can lie while blazing a blue-collar and tie is the standard of British Diplomacy, at all levels.

They do not mean what they say.

Only people who can beat them in the game are Americans.
(Compare President Bush and PM Blair relationship)

I have had limited association with the Americans and it took many years of rational and independent analysis, only after leaving them though, to get the correct  assessment and true picture of what they really meant.

See how Obama came into power with full-scale liberal views and end up as a stubborn personality and not listening to people power but continuing what Bush did better than what Bush would have figured it out but pretend to the whole world he is different.

Unlike British there are some genuine and stupid Americans, too.

Otherwise they would not have elected him for the first time.
If they elect him for second time my above genuine analysis would be confirmed without any doubt or contention.

Polls as at present prove that I am right at this point of time.
Unlike British they pay well for your services.
I do not know how one is paid under President Obama.

I am not interested who should become the next American President, let the stupid and brilliant Americans decide it.

But they are well advised by me to read the Kalama Sutta before voting next time round.

Coming back to America and American politics, they are not a benevolent society.
Obama pretended to be benevolent to the masses but he is truly benevolent  to the rich.

Chrysler bail out is one object lesson.

They have the capitalist mentality at all levels and success depends on how much one is prepared to get returns for initial investment.
Good examples are Microsoft and Speculators.
Now that Microsoft is having a nose dive, Apple is trying to get into that niche.
I-pads and educational material that they are planning to copyright are trying to swallow the stupid Americans in one stroke.

They propagate the universal truth which a myth by all standards, more educated one is and more one spends on education, more productive one is when employed.

But no education standards were necessary to get the bail outs.
The standard is how bad an American fails in his or her business. 
What ever the voters may say they always win and many a small Americans will have to foot the bill. 
In this context, Amazon did an amazing and wonderful thing by introducing Kindle Fire (selling below cost price) and creating http://www.createspace.com, in this big business world of Education and the hold that the publishers have on writers.

They are all out to kill this experiment.
Amazon is a successful business empire.
There is nothing wrong with it.
But at least in education Amazon’s vision is somewhat benevolent.
In American politics who ever who becomes the next president would try to kill this endeavour,  in its budding stage.

I hope I have not jumped or triggered the America gun mentality.
Time will tell what I say now will be right or wrong.

It is tilted towards ipad and Big Apple and not towards Amazon’s efforts.

If Apple wins it is a disaster for the entire world of education.

Elephant Bath

Elephant Bath

Elephant bath, it was where everybody who visits Kandy go to see elephant when it is not the Pereharas season. 
Botanical garden and Elephant bath were two landmarks of visit to the city.
Now no more thanks to development projects like Polgolla dam to divert water to the dry zone.
I must address an issue that this dam caused after its opening I must retell this story for the present engineers to understand the need to release water downstream regularly to avoid similar episodes.

The downstream water spilled over the dam was not enough to cover the river bed. 
Soon water pools begin to form and the mosquitoes started breading in them. 
For the first time we started detecting Malaria in Kandy. Any place under 4500 feet Malaria mosquito can breed.

Then water samples collected with mosquito larvae confirmed that Malaria mosquito was breeding in Kandy for the first time.

Now the remedy was to spray DDT on the river bed.

This was actually the consolidation phase of Malaria campaign and we prematurely relaxed spraying with the recommendation of the WHO.

Story circulating at that time was that the resident Malaria Campaign Officer who was  a foreigner, fearing his job would be axed if we successfully completed the campaign gave wrong signal to withdraw spraying prematurely.

In any case by the time of the opening of the Polgolla Dam in 1976, the malaria had spread all over and Kandy was relatively immune.

Now spraying the river bed was no feasible with people using it for bathing.
Our public officers gave the Mahaweli an order to intermittently release the water giving them correct instruction considering the life cycle of the Malaria larvae, so that the larvae get destroyed before they become mature mosquitoes.

This was a simple remedy but was very effective to arrest malaria spread in Kandy.

I do not think they still practice this simple remedy. 

One visit to Earl’s Reagent Hotel is enough to witness whether they are practicing common sense.

Now it was only yesterday I went to Kandy to buy something double sided sticker to stick the Telephone box to the wall. I was going from from one conner of the city to the other corner  find the same without any success.
At one point the cross road and the main were blocked and people were getting ready (some Bank organizing the thing) a procession.

Very young elephant with soaring sun beating down was covered with a decorated overcoat and was kept waiting till the men and the retinue got ready.

This poor animal while baking himself in the sun was trying to lift foot/feet in rotation, giving some respite to the burning feet (it was like the restless feet of old people who suffer from a similar burning but less distressful to the owner).

It was a pathetic sight to watch and mahout was nonetheless not bothered about the young animals welfare.

They are only exhibits without real life away from the jungle habitat.
Mind you, I am one is totally against domesticating these majestic creatures.
Ill treatment is totally unacceptable.
Not only they have lost a place for bathing they have lost all sense of wellbeing under human care in this Buddhist country.
These majestic animals love water and water is a sport for them and that is how they keep them cool under a thick skin.
With global warming and even in Kandy temperature going above 95 degrees Fahrenheit, they have no comfort zone.
It is criminal. Not only humans even animals need water for survival and that water has to be good for drinking.
Which is not true today.

“5 S” Strategy for Linux and a Businss Model


“5 S” Strategy for Linux and a Businss Model

For the future of Linux Community of Developers we should have a strategy in ISO style.

1. Sort.

2. Set

3, Shine or Refine

4. Standardize.

5. Sustain


I looked at the the successful companies and found No Linux derivatives there

This is the failure of Linux.

We do not have a Business Model to boast about. 

We have a Logo and a Mascot where are they standing at present?

If you look at the list in the first 20 we have IBM, Google, Microsoft and Intel and Yahoo at 66 but no Linux.

Like Coca Cola we should be in the Number One.

The simple reason is we do not know to market our products.

Do not merge with the big companies.

Look at Yahoo having merged it is in the 66th place whereas Microsoft is in the top 5.

Why?

1. Embrace

2. Expand

3. Extinguish or Explode

We call EXPLODE it in this country since we a firecracker happy nation (to show politicians are in the vicinity) to Explode at any moment.

We knew for over 30 years how to avoid and escape from bombs now we have to escape from (all powerful but impotent in deeds) politicians.

Unfortunately we do not know how to escape from the stranglehold they are imposing on us.

So merging with big companies or the politicians (Obama and his expensive social program) is not the way forward.

The way forward is to scrutinize the activities and put them the Acid Test of “5S”.

First of all we have to SORT all the Models.

I will do it in my way but my analysis also a Primitive Model to work with.

1. SORT

Sort all the essentials (LIVE CDs, Servers, Desktops, Netbooks most importantly O.E.M.s).
Sort the Origin

Debian series, 

Knoppix and Live CDs series, 

Puppy series. 

Ubuntu series, 

Redhat and Centos Series… 

Mandriva series, 

Slackware series, 

Gentoo series etc.

I am almost finishing with the Live CDs with subcategories named after our ancestral mammals the Apes (Light Weight, Middle Weight, Heavy Weight type of apes and monkeys) with x-Windows to go with it.

2. SET

Set a business Model with a strong Logo for Live CDs, Desktops and Server and O.E.M.s (that will be the future netbooks).

Target is to get within the first 10 if not it is not marketable.

3. SHINE rather REFINE the most essential basics for each category worth marketing.

4. Standardize

Linux is standard based operating system and this should not be a problem.

5. Sustainability

This is the difficult part without a strong Business Model.

This is only possible if all the Linux derivatives in each category pass a gold mark or the gold standard (for Live CD I have chosen PCLinux as the Gold Standard of usability) and move up the ladder in the 100 in each category.

That is my wishful thinking.

When I did my survey (now the time for a research) I found a lot of good stuff has gone into dormancy because of lack of support like a business model would have.

To name a few are MYAH, Linux Console. ADIOS. O.L.P.S and many more.

It is a shame that the good work of dedicated developers are now in the attic instead of in the classroom or in the living room.

I have shown the way.

We must revive and take Linux out of the doldrums and develop some marketable products.

I will be willing to work with even the devil if my suggestions are taken to heart by Developers but not business crooks.

Please make some critical comments.

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Nihalsingha is No More

Friday, April 22, 2016
Nihalsingha is No More

But he has left landmarks and milestones in our cinematic history.
One of Sri Lanka’s foremost filmmakers, D. B. Nihalsingha passed away yesterday afternoon after a brief illness. 
He was 77. 
Nihalsingha was the only Sri Lankan to be honoured with the title, ‘Professor in Cinema and Television’

Having made several award winning movies including 
Welikathara, 
Maldeniye Simion, 
Ridee Nimnaya and 
Kelimadala Nihalsingha made the country’s first Tele Serial ‘Dimuthu Muthu’ and followed it up with ‘Rekha.’ 
 
The cinema veteran was the founding CEO and General Manager of the National Film Corporation from 1972 to 1978.

Nihalsingha’s parents were veteran journalist D.B. Dhanapala and the late Rathi Dhanapala. 
 
His brother was veteran photo-journalist D.B. Suranimala.



My Theory of Our Solar System

My Theory of Our Solar System
  
I have a theory of my own, having observed pictures of the Universe.
What we see in any image is the past and never the the present moment
This thinking has some relevance to Buddhist Meditation.
 
We can only see the present moment never the past (already gone) and  the future (not yet come).
 
This is real Physics. 

1. Light take Light Years to reach US from a distant point in our galaxy.
 
2. We cannot see any point beyond the distance the light can travel and grace us.
It does not mean it is the limit of the Universe.
Rest of the light rays are still traveling and have not reach us.

What it means is we can only see a moment of the past and never the present moment at that point.
There is a delay in the sense of timing of an event.
By the way, time is a concept buy nothing substantial.
If one does not get this point of view one would not grasp my theory expounded here about our galaxy.

3. Universe is expanding and every moment we are losing certain amount of what we call the space in our Universe.

My Theory
 
We were a binary star System is my theory.
 
The reason for my theory is for some unknown reason our system is considerably stable.
It was probably very unstable when the other big star was active. 
It died a natural death but it still has a tremendous gravitational pull.
This gravitational pull is the one that resists the expanding nature of our Universe.
I have to guess where it location is.
 
There is one way of testing this hypothesis.

If we send a series of orbiters to the space one after other with a specified interval between them we may have a reliable guess.

4. This postulated large dead sun with tremendous gravitational pull will gobble all our orbiters moment they reach its gravitational sphere.

In other words we can see only the planets on our side of the sphere of influence.
Anything beyond cannot be seen using an orbiter.
 
All orbiters will be goggled by this putative binary star  proposed which is dead but has a stabilizing effect on our Solar System to begin with and also to our Galaxy.

That is my theory in essence.
Besides, there is a limit humans can perceive and we have to accept that limitation.
 
Of course, we as humans have the liberty to postulate many more theories and test their validity to refine our present knowledge.
 
My theory should excite like minded guys and girls.

Kinds of Insight Knowledge

 This is Abhidhamma terminology

 Kinds of Insight Knowledge

There are 18 kinds of insight knowledge that can be used as objects of Vipassana Meditation.

It is Knowledge or Truth or Dhamma based meditation as opposed to Samatha Meditation.

1. Annitta                 Contemplation of impermanence

2. Dukkha                 Contemplation of unsatisfactoriness (suffering)

3. Anatta                   Contemplation of non self

4. Nibbhidana           Contemplation of disinclination or aversion

5. Viraga                    Contemplation of dispassionateness

6. Nidodha                 Contemplation of extinction or cessation

7. Patinissangga       Contemplation of of abandonment

8. Khayanu                Contemplation of body

9. Vayanu                    Contemplation of state vanishing

10. Viparinama         Contemplation of state change

11. Animitta                Contemplation of state of conditionlessness

12. Apanihita             Contemplation of state desirelessness

13. Sunnatta               Contemplation of state of emptiness or void

14. Adhipanna            Contemplation based on higher knowledge

15. Yathabhuta           Contemplation based on knowledge and vision of reality

16. Adhinavana          Contemplation of misery

17. Patisankha            Reflecting or thinking on contemplation

18. Vivatta                   Absence of cycle of existence 
                                      Nirodha samapatthi

Basic Tenets of Dhamma

 Saturday, May 26, 2018


Basic Tenets of Dhamma

The inclement weather made me to be home bound and compose myself to investigate the three words in our discussion and find the closest English rendition (as much as Sinhala cannot translate them correctly, English fare much worse).

As I write this there is a YouTube session on the Internet on, and an American Lady (lay person but taken the role of a preacher) is having a talk show and stating that there is an anti-universe and in there life of beings is eternal and there is no death but permanent existence.

What a hoax?

To her my prediction is that even the anti-universe is subjected to state of flux and extinction and another round of universe and anti-anti universe would come into existence.

But our discussion here is on mind and its behavior which can grasp or cling into both the micca diiti (wrong view) and samma ditti (right view).

The bottom line is we should not corrupt the Pali Terminology.

1. Animitta          Condition-less (without a focus of attention)

2. Apanahita        Desire-less     (without attachment)

3. Sunatta            Emptiness or Void  (null)

What I find to my surprise is that they are the three of the 18 contemplative states described for monks with correspondingly higher states that can be attained in Vipaasana Meditation.

Suffice is to say these are very difficult to accomplish by an ordinary layperson.

My subsequent investigation leads me to the following summary.

The base line technique which is easy and useful for focusing the mind is nothing but Ana Pana Sati.

What is the objective?

Attainment of Dyana is the correct term for the commonly used term Jhanas (4 to 8 in number) that could be attained momentarily.

These states are not the same but similar to the psychological effects of psychedelic drugs.

These are very addictive states and bring out rapture and happy states
and have the proclivity for more of the same arousal tendency, craving and delight in essence.

That should not be the attitude of the meditator but is a hindrance to upward mobility.

They are not permanent and subjected to change.

That is why one should contemplate the Anitta, Dukkha and Anatta principles in these state of arousal.

As one ascends through higher Dyana levels the technique is to drop the mental states that are hindrance to the next level and finally achieve the highest level which is Upekka or Equanimity.

The next stage is to contemplate on detachment, abandoning and extinction leading to Nirodha.

I have summarized the states achieved in the first 4 levels, below.

The seven elements of Enlightenment are

1. Sati or Mindfullness

2. Dhamma vicaya or the Truth Principle.

3. Viriya or Energy

4. Piti or Rapture

5. Passadhi or Tranquility

6. Smadhi or Concentration

7. Upekkha or Equanimity

The seven states of enlightenment developed and frequently practiced leads to Wisdom and Deliverance (Vijja-vimutti).

Samadhi or the Concentration
In other words the attainment of four to five Jhana absorptions.
In Jhana Absorptions, there is complete but temporary detachment from all five sensual spheres and of five hindrances or the

Nivarana
They are
1. Kamacchanda (Loba)
2. Vyapada(Dosa)
3. Tina Middha (sloth and torpor)
4. Uddhakka-kukkussa(restlessness)
5. Vicikiccha (doubt)

1st Jhana State one attains
1. Vittakka (thought conception and attention to thought-thinkink)
2. Vichara (reflecting or on inner speech or discursive thinking)
3. Piti (rapture)
4. Sukha (joy)
5. Ekaggata (one pointedness)

2nd Jhana State
Vittaka is dropped.
1. Vicara
2. Piti
3. Sukha
4. Samadhi are accompaniments.

3rd Jhana State
1. Piti
2. Sukha
3. Samadhi

4th Jhana State
1. Sukha
2. Samadhi

5th Jhana State
1. Equanimity
2. Samadhi

Beings of other planets have attained the next four levels (5 to 8) of higher mental states and for lack of proper terms they could be called Divine Entities.

The four Jhana states practiced and attained at Patisnandhi state of mind would cause births in better worlds higher than the earth.

Unfortunately in these states they are unable to acquire new Kusala Kammasa and it is practically a dead end and once the Kamma is consumed, they fall into lower levels including birth in world system like ours.

It is just like one who has a big saving account and he/she withdraws money little by little before full maturity and empties it in no time.

Full maturity should be taken as Nirodha Samapatti.

Pangna or Wisdom
This is the understanding of the Four Noble Truths, the suffering, the origin of suffering, the path for cessation (Nirodaya) of suffering and the cessation of suffering.

This is the more difficult and is the intellectual pursuit of Vipassana Meditation.

The Samatha Meditation is the more practical and easy way of meditation.

There are about 40 objects for Samatha Bhavana (Vissudhi Magga has over 1000 objects) and one should select one which suits the personalty.

Objects of Insight Mediation
There is lot of commercial advertisement to meditation, I thought of giving a little resume for the novice.
 
There are 18 kinds of insight knowledge that can be used as objects of Vipassana Meditation.

It is Knowledge or Truth or Dhamma based meditation as opposed to Samatha Meditation.

1. Annitta                 Contemplation of impermanence

2. Dukkha                 Contemplation of unsatisfactoriness (suffering)

3. Anatta                   Contemplation of non self

4. Nibbhidana           Contemplation of disinclination or aversion

5. Viraga                    Contemplation of dispassionateness

6. Nidodha                 Contemplation of extinction or cessation

7. Patinissangga       Contemplation of of abandonment

8. Khayanu                Contemplation of body

9. Vayanu                    Contemplation of state vanishing

10. Viparinama         Contemplation of state change

11. Animitta                Contemplation of state of conditionlessness

12. Apanihita             Contemplation of state desirelessness

13. Sunnatta               Contemplation of state of emptiness or void

14. Adhipanna            Contemplation based on higher knowledge

15. Yathabhuta           Contemplation based on knowledge and vision of reality

16. Adhinavana          Contemplation of misery

17. Patisankha            Reflecting or thinking on contemplation

18. Vivatta                   Absence of cycle of existence 
                                      Nirodha samapatthi

Steven Greer

 Steven Greer

I am a medical guy.

I did not register for my medical registration for nearly for 25 years to become a critic of the medical profession. Presently,I am  not bound by Hypocritic Oath. I have followed Carl Segan, Bertram Russel and colonel Henry Steel Olcott and I am open to inquiry and criticism of any kind as long as it is done in an objective and scientific way.

It does not mean that science is the only way.

I have followed this guy and was skeptical of him from the very beginning.    I won't say he is a hoax but certainly a crafty manipulator, the kind that a CIA operator would be fond of. He uses subtle ways to plant seeds of disinformation.

He says he had seen alien crafts twice but no photographic evidence to support his claims. One has to believe him just like a CIA guy wants us to believe in a particular scenario. My personal belief is that the CIA has created alien story to hoodwink and cover up stealth aircraft development.

My book on “Alien Saga” has done a superficial  reflection. Since, I have no direct verifiable evidence, it is not a revelation but somewhat of  a conjecture.

Linda Moulton Howe is an artful investigative journalist and Steven Greer berates her.

Betty Hill alien abduction story is, if at all, speculative.

David Grusch the CIA guy has given only a hearsay evidence without any supportive evidence.

Nothing direct or objective.

Steven Greer craftily built up his gullible client base and his disclosure project was a smoke screen without any credible evidence.

He has made a fortune.

All his sons are doctors.

Why none of his sons made a career path in Ufology?

He has now changed to NDE (Near Death Experience) Saga.

His earlier claim was that he followed a meditation session in India and became aware of alien beings. According to him, he has had severe septicaemia in childhood that may have had significant and lasting damage to some parts of his brain. These childhood illusions and delusions during septicaemia may have had lasting impression on him. I am glad he never upgraded  his own medical career.

I am a retired pathologist (as Buddhist I wish him long life without dementia) and if somebody does  a Postmortem Examination of his brain, vital clues of childhood insults may be revealed. That decision is left to his medical children. If for some reason he was born in Ceylon he would have had a tough time to convince even gullible Ceylonese.

Even though, we are eternally, duped by our politicians and Kalama Sutta has given us the freedom for Free Inquiry we Ceylonese lack investigative talents.

By the way, Free Inquiry  is lacking in USA and also in the West and the Print Media are basically controlled by CIA and M16.

Tucker Carlson working under duress in American Media is a living monument to this lack of transparency.

CIA, FBI and M15/16 fear free inquiry.

Since most of their war efforts are over and the proxy war in Ukraine is coming to a stall and the covert viral and bio-engineering projects in Ukraine are not revealed to the public, we have to rely on speculations.

I do not like speculations.

Jacques Vallee

Revelations

"Not only is there an amazing willingness in the human mind to invest credence and faith in unproven facts, but there is more evil, more readiness than ever on the part of various sophisticated groups, to use this human weakness as a tool in controlling others."

 

Lorenso

Skilled Investigator

Hello: I'm a new listener and I've been trying to get caught up with past episodes, and I came across your Greer interviews. At the time there was some question as to what goes on in his "Ambassador" program, so perhaps I have something to contribute. I attended a 1-day seminar that had a sky-watching/meditation portion that night. I heard the Michael Horn interview first and so I was hoping you were going to disembowel Greer, but I discovered the hosts had fallen for the same "Mr Disclosure" facade as I.

I love you guys for getting to the bottom of it, without sitting through 8 hours of Greer. Anyway, here's my story from that evening, which I wrote up the next day:

I do not remember when I first heard of Dr. Steven Greer and his organisations CSETI and Disclosure Project but I had come across mentions of his name in both podcast interviews and in links on the web over the years. When      I found out that he would be holding a workshop in the area, I decided to sign up, just to see what would happen.

My general impression of Dr. Greer was that  he was a type of Contactee who claimed to have a group meditation technique that could actually create an interaction with ET Intelligence, generally in the form of UFO activity. I had not yet read any of his books,   but I found from his websites that he is also a big Disclosure advocate. Furthermore, Dr. Greer was a physician who gave all that up to pursue disclosure and set up CSETI.   You have to admire that level of commitment and it made me think that something significant must have happened to this man to keep him going all these years.

From what I gleaned from his website, Dr. Greer seemed to fit in generally as a Disclosure advocate and Contactee. That all sounded interesting enough for me,    so I signed up for his CSETI "CE-5 workshop". I have to confess that I knew little about him at this point, but the little I knew was positive enough and if he could produce a UFO at the end of the day, he'd have me convinced!

My first disappointment started early, when I got the reading materials in the mail. The book I received, "Hidden Truth" was apparentlya transcription from his biographical lectures and runs like a stream-of-consciousness biography of a Contactee. Greer's early years were very much like other "Abductees", "Experiencers" and Contactees- filled with abuse, neglect, and illness. Why so many UFO experiencers (as well as Near Death experiencers) have also had difficult childhood experiences is yet another mystery, but it is well documented.

Dr. Greer was also like many other Experiencers in that he was able to transcend his difficult upbringing. In his case, he spent years studying meditation and spirituality (TM and Bahai) and then went on to get  a Medical degree.

I have read books by other Contactees and Channelers before and the one thing that stands out about this group is that they are the ones that have all the answers. While the MUFON people are puzzling over a melted drop of aluminium and Crop Circle researchers stare at unintelligible symbols written in wheat, Contactees often know exactly what's going on.

Unfortunately, they never agree, except to tell you that all the others are wrong.

In summary, here are some of Dr. Greer's Answers to our questions:

Q. What are UFOs?

Answer: Advanced, peaceful and wise life forms that use the technology/wisdom as described in Vedic scriptures to create high-tech vehicles and travel vast distances.

Q. What is the ET Agenda?

Answer: They are all good and here to help.Like Guardian Angels, they keep the world from blowing up until we humans come to figure out how to become enlightened beings.

Q. Then what about the Alien Abductions?

Answer: They are ALL done by shadowy human organisations (The Majestic Group) in order to scare us and make us hate the good ETs. Same goes for Cattle Mutilations!

Q. How does this military group pull off these complex abductions and mutilations?

Answer: The "Majestic" people have super technology, almost as good as the ETs and they keep it from the rest of humanity for their own nefarious purposes.

Q. Why does this story seem so different from what the "mainstream" UFO investigators have to say?

Answer: The mainstream investigators are thoroughly infiltrated by spooks, bribed, and drug-peddled.

Like many conspiracy theorists, you find on the Web, the world he describes is run by a supernaturally powerful group of insiders. These guys are the ones who killed the Kennedys, got rid of Marilyn Monroe, or orchestrated Watergate, listen to our every conversation, have bases on the moon and have all the patents to give us free energy and end poverty. They also have death rays and can take us out that way any time they want.

The most disappointing thing about Greer's Story to me was the amount of secrecy he maintains over his sources. Many of his most revealing interviews that tell us the most about these shadowy groups were from unnamed sources. For someone so interested in Government disclosure,Steven Greer holds an awful lot of secrets himself. He even intimated in the book and said more clearly during his lecture, that he has "explosive" secret information, which is what protects him from getting zapped by the "Majestic" people. He keeps this information secret but threatens to reveal it if they ever "get" him.

By the time, I set out for Greer'sCE-5 Workshop, his bubble was about half deflated. But, I thought, he must know a lot about meditation,    so I'll learn something there and if I actually see a UFO tonight, well that would be something!

So, with some trepidation that I might be wasting my time but hopeful that I wasn't, I set off for the workshop in Petaluma,California at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Dr. Greer is a big man, with a weight lifter’s build. He speaks with a Southern accent that reminded me of Al Gore. He arrived with a small entourage consisting of two middle aged women, a worshipful, doe-eyed young man and a security detail of two guards.

The workshop was sold out, with about 70 attendees. At $175 per person, I calculated the event must have grossed about $12,250. After the costs of transportation, hotels and security, I am sure he had a small profit but I imagine billing Medicare would be a much easier way for an MD to make money.

The daylight component of the workshop consisted almost entirely of Dr. Greer re-hashing what was in his book. He would occasionally needle us for not having read it but I got the sense from the attendees that they, like me, had nearly all read the whole thing. Some attendees seemed quite devoted.

Dr. Greer did not seem interested in taking questions.

He took a couple at the end of the talk but ran out the clock by elaborating and telling unrelated stories, also from the book.

He struck me as surprisingly egotistical and even mean for someone who has spent so many years in meditative contemplation. One attendee, who clearly had studied Vedic Theology, asked a technical question, filled with Vedic Jargon.

Dr. Greer quickly rejoined with a quote, “such ignorance is spoken in so many large words”   and flashed a grin at one of his followers.

Later,Dr. Greer produced photos of a mummified "Alien Child" discovered in Peru." If you don't know what desiccated means? Look it up, it means dried up".

He spoke of it like a new case that he was busy investigating. It looked to my untrained eye like a freeze-dried fetus, so I asked him how it was different from a normal fetus. He squinted at me, “are you a doctor?”

Shortly after that, while explaining why he needed a security detail up here in hippie central,  he suggested    (in jest?), I might be one of the infiltrators out to get him.

We finished the daylight portion of the workshop by viewing his video and photographic evidence. As seems so often the case, the most spectacular encounters he describes on the Web Site   and in his book all occurred when no video or camera was available. For some reason, it was about a decade into his CSETI Project before they thought of purchasing a decent video camera and all the best sightings had apparently already happened by then.

We saw slides of the usual type of UFO footage, “the strange things in the sky”.

We also watched the CSETI Footage that was captured more recently and excluding all UFOs that acted just like satellites and shooting stars and there were a handful of light anomalies.

I guess even Greer's best ET friends are camera-shy.

During the break for dinner, I joined some others in the group for burritos. It was interesting to hear their ideas and impressions. Two women seemed determined to agree with everything Greer had to say.        A third was very much like me, critically open minded. We were all hopeful that he would produce a UFO that evening and perfectly willing to suspend judgement. We did have another attendee who was very concerned about what might happen. She was from Eastern Europe and her English was rough but apparently, she thought that making contact with ETs was against some kind of NASA International Law and we might contract alien viruses or something.

I could not tell if she was being deliberately enigmatic or was having trouble expressing herself!

By this point, I suspect a lot of us were thinking he had better produce a UFO because the rest of the story was not holding up very well.

So we headed back up the hill with our cameras and folding chairs and EM Meters and night vision goggles with high hopes that this experiment in collective psychic communication would finally reveal something new about the UFO Phenomenon.

As night fell,Dr. Greer was as garrulous as ever, telling us more stories out of the book we had all read. We all sat straining at the stars trying to spot something unusual and wondering when we would get to the point when Dr. Greer would do his thing and pull down an ET.

The story telling continued, along with some shooting stars and satellite observations, for about two hours. A couple of poor abductees spoke up with questions about missing time experiences and having met ETs but unable to get over the terror of the experience.

Dr. Greer calmed them down gently “if you are scared of the ET, then you need to get over it”.

Missing time?

Who knows, probably nothing?

Dr. Greer had an interesting prop for the night.  A police radar detector that made audible noises and seemed to punctuate at random moments with Dr. Greer’ suttering.

Dr. Greer seemed to think these noises were significant.

I could not help but notice that our mountainside outpost had a direct line of sight to Highway 101 in the valley floor, so these alarms could just as well have been the occasional CHP rounding a bend, headlights shining right at us.

He called the sounds "information download", which of course SETI gets all the time and suppresses.

As midnight rolled around,Dr. Greer seemed to begin to lose steam and we finally attempted the “meditation protocol” under the stars.

As a spiritual liturgy, it was quite beautiful.

We all sat together and meditated on peace and cosmic harmony. Following the meditation, he asked for any messages or visions. I am not good at this kind of stuff, so I had nothing to offer. A few folks had various sensations of meeting cosmic beings  and attempted to invite them down. These beings did not seem to take us very seriously however, because in both reports, the ETs wanted to know what the hell we wanted.

Unfortunately, our ambassadors for the night could not think of anything convincing enough and no one came to visit. And so, at around 12:30AM, we finished. I did not wait around to hold hands and give thanks. Some people applauded but I'm not sure why. I just packed up my belongings and headed back to the car so I could get home as fast as I could.

P.S.

Dr. Greer apparently has a very active astral life. While he never got to meet Bill Clinton in person, he says he has met with the President a number of times astrally and the two would confer. He also says he keeps the Secret Service busy with tips on assassination attempts that he has Remote Viewed and been able to avert.

Most recently, he informed them of an attempted IED attack by the “Majestic” people on President Obama.

I did not get the chance to ask him why the Majestic people cannot just hit him with a cancer ray beam.