Multi-Linual Capabilities to Prevent Dementia

Multi-Linual Capabilities to Prevent Dementia

I was doing some search for improving my short term memory (which is failing little by little) and found the following.

Two early signs of DEMENTIA are labile emotion outbursts and short term memory loss.

The second language is localized on the non dominant brain (right side in a right handed person).

This makes one to use, both side of the brain effectively.

I went for a course in French few years ago and gave it up, since it is very difficult to understand the spoken language.

Written language is different from the spoken due to conjugation of sounds and dropping of sounds.

English I is pronounced as E and h sound is dropped.

In other words it is very difficult for an Englishman to learn French and vice versa, even though English originated from French.

Lately, I decided to revisit French with a Sinhala Pronunciation, which worked well.

Sinhala has more sounds than both English and French combined.

This is why we can master any language given the proper introduction early in life.

So our tradition of leaning (after 1956 SLFP) only Tamil and Sinhala is counterproductive and that is why we have IDIOTS in the Parliament with advanced DEMENTIA.

If you have a TABLET there are easy learning packages online.
I am trying them currently BUT still the pronunciations are difficult!

Research has demonstrated a significant delay in Alzheimer’s symptoms in individuals who are bilingual.

It’s not yet understood how or why this occurs. One possible explanation is that somehow the brains of bilinguals are able to compensate for the deficits caused by Alzheimer’s, causing these individuals to function as if their brains had less damage than they actually do. Although some of the research tested those who spoke another language most or all of their lives, it’s never too late to learn a new language. You can take a community education class, go to your local library or find resources online for new language learners. 

Rebirth in Buddhism

Rebirth in Buddhism
There seems to be a sinister campaign to discredit Buddhist values including belief in Rebirth.
Unfortunately, all the writers are well above the age of 80 years and when they are gone for good, there is nobody left to take the Baton of Wisdom forwards.
Most of their writing left in the computer may be erased for good.
In that sense, putting these ideas in the Internet may serve a purpose.
Putting in a paper format, especially in the local media, I find is a waste of time.

So I have reproduced a paper article for the purpose of posterity.
I have of course made my contribution in print and digital form for the sake of the Western Audience.

I have given an Abhidhamma description of Mind and rebirth, especially regarding Patisandhi elsewhere in the same blog spot.
 (Buddism Made Simple from Asokaplus at www.wordpress.com)
One should read this in conjunction with that article. 
However, they are only my views and one should not believe them on face value.

I do not like to take any side or dare say I believe all what is written, related to hypnosis.

Reproduction
By Dr. V.J.M. de Silva
It is with interest that I read the article by Dr. Prasanna Cooray in The Island SatMag of 10.09.17. 

There have been two responses to Dr. Cooray (PC)’s article by persons, erudite no doubt, who appear to be materialists, expressing doubts about rebirth. 

They are of course entitled to their opinion. 

A majority of scientists are also materialists. 

They believe that matter is all there is. As philosopher, Bertrand Russell (1870 -1972), who was a well-known atheist and materialist, once said, "When I die, my body will rot, and nothing of my ego will remain". Buddhists, though atheists, are I believe, not materialists.
Let me start by saying that this article is not meant to debunk any religion or to promote my own religious views. I am neither a theologian nor am I well-versed in Buddhism as PC appears to be. However, I have to confess to having an "itch to write"! 

In 2010, there was an article in The Island on "Belief in Rebirth in the West", where the writer mentioned the case of Bridey Murphy. 

At that time I wrote an article titled "The Bridey Murphy Case and Reincarnation" – (The Island Saturday Magazine, 29.05.10).

I had then done some research on this subject, and the notes I made are still in my computer. Being an "advanced" octogenarian,to whom writing is now a bit of a hassle, I have made use of the notes I made in 2010 in writing this article.
Some writers on this subject may not place much value on ethical and metaphorical arguments, or appeals to authority and the universality of the belief, in support of the theory of rebirth. They are of course of value to the believer, not the skeptic or unbiased inquirer. The stress is on empirical evidence based on scientific investigations. 

This is classified as:(1) experimental, in the form of hypnosis and (2) spontaneous.
Empirical Evidence – Many people who accept reincarnation today, claim that it can be scientifically proven. They usually base their belief on actual instances of such recall. There are two distinct ways of eliciting this:

 
1. Under hypnosis – during regression beyond the date of birth

2. Children who spontaneously remember a previous life.

1. Under hypnosis – Hypnotic regression started to be used as a "past lives recall" method

In 1952, when Ruth Simmons from Colorado, USA, was regressed "back in time" beyond the date of her birth by Morey Bernstein. It became one of the most celebrated cases and brought the attention of the Western world to the notions of past lives and reincarnation. I can remember reading an article on it in the Readers Digest, when I was a medical student over sixty years ago. It caused quite a stir world-wide. The book "The Search for Bridey Murphy" written on it by Morey Bernstein was an immediate best-seller.

In 1952, in Pueblo, Colorado, US, Morey Bernstein hypnotized Virginia Tighe (VT)(1923-1995), then aged 29, a young house-wife – referred to as "Ruth Simmons" in his book. Under hypnosis VT claimed to be a 19th century Irish woman from Cork in Ireland. She said her name was Bridey Murphy (BM). In subsequent sessions she claimed to have been born in 1798, the daughter of Kathleen and Duncan Murphy. The family had lived outside of Cork, in Ireland; her father was a barrister. She had patronized Belfast grocers, Farr and John Carrigan. They moved to Belfast, where they remained until Bridey’s death at 66 following a fall downstairs.While under hypnosis, she spoke in an Irish brogue, sang Irish songs and told Irish stories, always as BM. There were six sessions conducted by Bernstein over a period of eleven months. Several of the details were correct as verified by journalists who visited Ireland.
It was subsequently shown that VT had Irish connections. Her parents with whom she had lived till age three, her uncle who had brought her up for some time, and finally another aunt Mrs. Marie Burns, who was born and bred in Ireland and well informed about the "Old Country".VT’s early childhood was in Chicago, Illinois, and the newspaper Chicago American reported that across the place where VT had lived as a child, there had been, at that time, an Irish woman named Bridey Murphy Corkell - (the first two names are significant).Bridey Corkell, (maiden name Murphy), immigrated to the US in 1908. Virginia (VT), as a little girl had associated closely with the Corkell family. All this information was in the Chicago American newspaper. The June 25, 1956 issue of Life magazine published a short article "Bridie Search Ends at Last" and a photograph of Mrs. Corkell with her grandchildren.The obituary of Bridey Corkell appeared in the Chicago Tribune, August 10, 1957. – [those interested could see the details in my article in The Island(www.island.lk archives – 29.05.10) mentioned above].
There are several other hypno-therapists who have recorded hundreds of cases of past-life recall and published books. Thus Dr. Arnall Bloxham, some years ago, recounted the interesting story of an English teacher who under hypnosis recalled ten of her past lives, the earliest going back to days of cavemen. She was a furnisher in the reign of George II, a peasant boy in Scandinavia, and the wife of a cobbler and a pickpocket in 1700 – (Who was Ann Ockendon?, 1958). It is claimed that such cases demand paranormal explanations and the most plausible is the theory of reincarnation.
Hypnotism - Hypnosis is a method of inducing an altered state of consciousness, where the subject can mix fantasy with real memories. Individuals in a hypnotized state also show an extraordinary ability to create very convincing stories out of a storehouse of memories. Almost any hypnotic subject capable of going into a deep trance will babble about a previous existence if the hypnotist asks him/her to. Under hypnosis, the subject is ready to accept all kinds of distortions, having his reality shaped according to what the hypnotist dictates as he is very receptive to the hypnotist’s suggestions.
Another compromising factor in getting true "past life stories" is the preparation the subject undergoes before hypnosis. They are informed about its purpose, which induces in them a high expectancy state. All the information they produce is the result of a dialogue between the hypnotist and his patient, in which the questions have to be easy and clear in order to get a proper answer. The conscious desire to know their "previous lives" undoubtedly influences their response under hypnosis.As in most cases the hypnotist (who is often a believer in rebirth), expects a confirmation of the reincarnation theory, or at least expects it subconsciously.
Whether hypnotism can be relied on to create significant proof of reincarnation is itself a controversial contention. There are however other possibilities of explanation.
An Explanation - All things considered, these "past life recalls" provide a classic case of cryptoamnesia – a phenomenon first described by 19th century Swiss psychologist-philosopher-physician, Theodore Flournoy. According to this theory, the human mind is like a library filled with years and years of overheard conversations, pictures, newspaper stories, TV shows, books and songs. Nothing is ever lost; everything seen or heard remains ‘on file’. Though consciously forgotten, these bits and pieces of information and experience can later form the basis of fully blown fantasies that emerge under hypnosis, as personal "memories."
Although there are some encouraging results in using it as a psychiatric healing therapy, it is a fact that hypnosis when used for past life regression can mix fantasy with real memories or even create entirely fictitious episodes. In deep states of hypnosis, some subjects have had out-of-body experiences and claimed to have traveled in mysterious spiritual realms. Others have had a mystical experience of oneness with the universe.In fact Dr. Ian Stevenson himself (author of Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation), has said: "In my experience, nearly all so-called previous personalities evoked through hypnosis are entirely imaginary and a result of the patient’s eagerness to obey the hypnotist’s suggestions. It is no secret that we are all highly suggestible under hypnosis." [(Omni Magazine 10(4):76 – 1988). This was available on the Internet in 2010]
 

2. Spontaneous Past-life recall by Children- these cases are almost all under ten years. Several have been mentioned by Dr. Ian Stevenson. Here again, these stories can be explained in an alternate way, not necessarily as proof for reincarnation. There is the possibility that these children are contacting ‘external spirits’ through channeling.In this case the medium would be the child, which is not convincing.A better explanation would be the possession of children by external ‘spiritual entities’. This phenomenon is related to channeling, but this time the human person is forced to transmit the messages of a spirit without having any conscious contribution to the whole process. In other words, possession implies that the invading spirit enters the body and takes over the entire control of human consciousness, acting as if a past life personality were manifesting itself.
This explanation is more likely to be valid for the following reason: Almost all cases of spontaneous past life recall experiences are produced by children who manifest them between the age of two and five, when their spiritual discernment is almost nonexistent, especially concerning spirits. This situation makes them easier to be manipulated by external spirits. As the child grows up, the entities lose their power of influence upon him/her, which could explain why the past life memories are lost after the age of 10. All past life memories are generally lost after the age of ten. (Ernest Valea, Reincarnation - Past-life Recall as Modern Proof for Reincarnation)

There have been cases where the possessing spirit enters the child’s body long after he/she was born. In one case, Lurancy Vennum, a one year old girl began to display the personality of Mary Roff when she (Mary Roff) died. This lasted several months, while Mary Roff claimed to have occupied the body of the girl. After this period ‘Mary Roff’ departed, and Lurancy Vennum resumed control – (Evidence for Survival from Claimed Memories of Former Incarnations p 32)
These cases of children are culturally dependent. Most cases are in India and South Asia where reincarnation is fully accepted. The Asian cases are always richer in details than the Western ones – (this is noteworthy). Western children who have such experiences give only poor details that could permit verification.Stevenson admits: "All the cases I’ve investigated so far have shortcomings. Even taken together, they do not offer anything like proof." (Omni Magazine).
Dr. Ian Stevenson(1918 – 2007)– PC has given an account of Dr. Stevenson in some detail in his article. Stevenson published his book ‘Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation’ in 1974. He never suggested that his research was proof. In a lecture given in 1989, for the Flora Levy Lecture in the Humanities, he said: "Journalists have sometimes incorrectly (and unjustly) described me as trying to prove to prove that reincarnation occurs. This allegation is wrong as a descriptive of both my motives and of science. Outside of mathematics, there is no proof in science; scientists make judgements about probabilities, and they rarely express themselves in statements of certainty". Stevenson real aim was to obtain proof of our continued existence after death, rather than prove reincarnation true. He believed that the most promising evidence for life after death "has been that provided by children who claim to remember previous lives". To this end he studied in detail over 2,500 cases across the world, frequently in languages he could not understand and had to use translators. There can be interviewer bias in people in people not trained to avoid just that. He could not test the skills of translators and has therefore, perhaps justly, been criticized on this account.
In opposition to Materialism, it could be said that Buddhism, Christianity (along with other religions) and Psychical Research agree in affirming survival after death. There are areas where these three agree, while there are also areas of disagreement.
Death is not the end of life; life continues after dissolution of the body. Most people would say that there is no proof of the theory of reincarnation. Conclusions about it are at best bound to be speculative. However,the cumulative effect of the evidence is certainly impressive.

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Endless Os

I have tested the Endless Os (basic) and the comments are below.
If you have Internet access, it is far better to buy (cheap by all standards) a computer installed with Endless Os.
I give my reasons below.
I want the guys and girls developing this Os to put a Light Weight Live version, for testing and luring the enthusiasts young and old.
I am an OLD Linux Enthusiast who has gone to slumber due to the tablet I have.
I have given almost a total retirement to my desktop computer.
I use it for watching downloaded films and browsing the email.
But all these can be done on the move and I do not need a keyboard to type.
Touch typing on a tablet is a treat and it looks after my typing mistakes well, often completing the words with valuable prompts.
That is one reason for not writing about Linux in general but I read the Linux Magazine from cover to cover.
Thanks guys and girls for writing a note about Endless Os.
It made me to do a search on it's web site.
It has taken over the concept of OLPS, the One Laptop Per Child to its limits.
You probably know OLPS was killed in its infancy by the corporate might but not its underlying concept.
Endless Os not only has a Linux platform but port with affordable hardware.

 
That's it's strength.

 
I have not yet tested or downloaded it yet but why bother.
It has enormous resources and multi-language capability including Chinese.

Please visit it's web site and make your own judgment.
Comments after testing.
Overall it is a very good distribution with limitless resources for general educational  (not Linux in particular) purposes.
It is for single use and does not live side by with other operating systems including Linux itself.
Now I know why it is not in the Distrowatch List.
It is a solid distribution to be installed into hardware and used daily.
Not for a hobbyist to play round.
It takes over your hardware and all its partitions in full swoop and that's it.
I do not like any operating system which lives by itself Microsoft and Apple included and not coexisting with the other ecosystems,
 around.
On the plus side, it has the look of a mobile phone.
No particular desktop, even though the base is from Gnome.

I want the guys / girls  to develop a mobile version and a phone to go with it, now that both (crowd funded) Ubuntu and Firefox abandoned their mobile platform.
There should be something to compete with Google's Android platform (originally based on Linux but now proprietary) since desktop will be in the past tense with the way IoT is moving.

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 ලංකාවේ ආපනශාලා

ගෙදර උයන ආහාරවලට පමණක් නොව කඩෙන් මිලදී ගන්නා ආහාරවලටද ප්‍රමිතියක් තිබිය යුතුය. නිවසේ හා ආපනශාලාවල බදින ලද ආහාරවල ඇතුළත තෙල් ගතියක් තිබෙන්නේ නිසි ප්‍රමිතියකට බදින්න නොදන්නාකම නිසාය. ලෝකයේ හොඳම තේ තිබෙන්නේ ලංකාවේය. එහෙත් අපි නිසි ප්‍රමිතියකට තේ කෝප්පයක් හදාගන්නවත් දන්නේ නැති ජාතියක් ලෙස සැලකිය හැකිය. එක්කෝ කහට මදිය. නැතිනම් සීනි වැඩිය. ගෘහණියන් අතරින් රසවත් තේ කෝප්පයක් හදන්න දන්නේ කලාතුරකින් කෙනෙකු පමණය. මේ ලක්ෂණය ආපනශාලාවටද පොදුය. ආපනශාලාවලින් තේ බොන විට හොඳ තේ කෝප්පයක් බොන්න ලැබෙන්නේ කලාතුරකින් තැනක පමණය. අප පුනරුදය වැඩසටහන් සඳහා දුර ගමනක් ගොස් ආපසු එමින් සිටියදී අප්‍රියාවකින් තොරව මුහුණ කට සෝදා ගැනීමට ලැබෙන පහසුකම් සලකා අපි අඹේපුස්ස තානායමට ගියෙමු. එය විදේශ සංචාරකයන්ට බර තබා පවත්වාගෙන යන තානායමකි. සරල ආහාරයකින් පසු අපි බොන්න ඇණවුම් කළේ කෝපිය. කෝපි කිරි හා සීනි වෙන වෙනම ගෙනාවේය. ඒවා මිශ්‍ර කොට කෝපි කෝප්පයක් හදා ගෙන එය බොන්න ගත් විට රසවත් කෝපි කෝප්පයක් වෙනුවට අපට බොන්න සිදුවූයේ පල්වතුර වැනි කෝපි කෝප්පයකි. කෝපි බඳුනේ තිබූ කෝපි ප්‍රමාණවත් තරමින් ඝනව හදා නොතිබුණි. කිරි භාජනය පරීක්ෂා කළ විට එය අඩුවෙන් පිටි දමා හදා තිබෙන කිරි බව හඳුනාගත හැකිය. මා තානායමේ සේවකයන් අතර සිටි ප්‍රධාන පුද්ගලයකු කැඳවා ඔහුට ඒ ගැන පැමිණිලි කළෙමි. අපට ඉක්මනින් ඝනට හැදූ කෝපි බඳුනක්ද, හොඳින් උණු කරන ලද නැවුම් කිරි බඳුනක්ද, ඒවා පිළියෙළ කරගැනීම සඳහා අලුත් පීරිසි කෝප්පද ලැබුණි. වැඩි මුදලක් ගෙවන විට ඒ සඳහා ලැබෙන දේද මුදලට සරිලන උසස් තත්ත්වයක තිබිය යුතුය. අවසානයේ අපිට හොඳ කෝපි කෝප්පයක් බීමේ වාසනාව හිමිවිය.

 

I did not read the above piece from Victor Ivan.
What he stays is true!
Unfortunately he does not say anything about our spirits, that is our Arraku.
 

Food, Beverages and Life Style

This a post from my Lenovo Tab.

Thanks to IBM for selling its copyright to China that I can afford a good tablet for one tenth of the price of Apple's iPod.

Since the title contains life style, I will cut through and swipe at everything including cricket.

Yes cricket was a life style and gentleman's game.

 
Not any more since corrupt bookies and politicians riding high.
 

I took a wise decision not to watch Ceylonese Cricket and almost simultaneously not writing about it.
That has saved me lot of good time and diverted my interest to high spirits especially wine.
I know Ceylonese enjoy spirits more than cricket now.
When we lose the solace is within the bottle of spirits too.
 

The other aberration was stop drinking Ceylon Tea.
 

I used to drink over 20 cups when the blend was pretty good with excellent flavor.
 

But that all changed since all the local blends are adulterated and horrible.

 
Let me bare the facts.
 

All the good tea is auctioned in the bourse and what was not purchased is sent back to the dealer.
He mixes this with tea dust that was used as manure in the good old days and wraps it with Kheels, Arpico and other supermarkets brand names.

The locals have no option but to drink this dirt daily.
 

Just like all the high grown tea, the high quality rice is exported and rice with high content of arsenic, especially the brown rice is left for local consumption.
I do not eat rice now and I am trying my best to convert the near and dear ones from this rice addiction.

It is the best health advice that I dispense only in private circles.

So, tea is out  and the rice is out.
 

Any other option left?
 

Thankfully Ceylonese coffee is still very good not like the dirty horrible Indian Nestcafe.
 

I was a coffee addict and it took many years of sustained effort to wean myself off.
 

I was a living example of caffeine syndrome which I read in a nursing journal.
 

I found  a good Thai Brand.
 

I am back to original myself except no lack of sleep.
 

Unlike my dog my liver can deal with any amount of alcohol and coffee.

That was an ominous sign in twilight years.
 

So, I decided to cut on caffeine.
Starting with Coca-Cola.
 

There is not a single brand of soft drink without caffeine in the local market.
 

That is the very reason our youth are bad in sports including cricket.
 

The good old king coconut is not within the reach of the poor since our developers are clearing the remaining coconut plantations and there is no regeneration program in sight for coconuts.
 

I would wound up with banana cakes.
Except in one place in Kandy all the banana cakes are horrible.
I had good hope that UNP would resurrect the economy.

I was sadly mistaken.
 

They are not worth the paper money they print from borrowed money.

Everything, is horrible including food, life style and politics.
I excuse myself off from my blog post several years ago, in this site praising Ceylonese delicacy's including banana cake.

Sorry guys and girls.
  
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What has happened to our (Short Eats) Food Industry? 

With lot of tourist coming to Ceylon, they love our delicacies food and this piece is current and relevant.

Yesterday I found a foreign tourist looking for Kassipu.
 
I do not think he will come back.

It is afflicted by the "Seven Deadly Diseases"  mentioned by the “Quality Guru”, W. Edwards Deming.
 
Let me be brief about his impact on industry and the service sector.
His power of non judgmental analysis and the statistical prowess in doing so made him famous in Japan.

He laid the foundation for post war recovery of Japan and its rise as an industrial country.
 
He was ignored by the Americans till late eighties and he was honored after his death. 

This piece is about our retail food outlets, especially in Kandy not about any industry.

It is a waste of time talking about Colombo food habits.
 
Kandy food vendors were known for good quality food except of course during the Sirimavo’s time.

It was good until latter few years of Mahinda regime when it started coming down.

Let me give few examples.

1. “Parrippu Wade” was of good size and one would fill your tommy.
 
2. “Umbalakada Wade” was fabulous even during war time.
There was a big sized Umbalakada (Maldive Fish).
 
3. Egg roll had a full egg.
 
4. Sandwich had enough cheese and butter.
 
5. Banana cake was fabulous.
 
6. Tea was of good quality.
 
7. Coffee was excellent.
 
8. Pol Sambol had Umbalakada and real chillies.
 
9. Thala Guli had real Thala (Gingerly Seed).
 
10. Kithul Hakuru and treacle were out of heaven.
 
I have stopped drinking OUR liqueur in mid nineteen eighties, when I realized all were adulterated including toddy.

I have to refrain from talking about milk rice, Aggalas, Kavums and few more items.

Home made stuff became commercial entities and I stopped eating them.
 
What happened towards the end of the regime,

I will give an indication.
 
The wade started becoming smaller and flatter.

“Suduru” disappeared.
 
Umbalakada became lean.
 
Egg became half and later quarter and still later tiny bit smashed in.
 
No spices at all but a rotten piece of chili without (only the covering) the seeds.

Then we got rid of the regime and for about six months the food quality went up marvelously.
 
Then with the Coalition government well established, the rot and the food quality started going down.

I think this is a deliberate ploy spearheaded by Mahinda Golays and Balayas, within the regime.

My latest grouse is, I bring some cooked fish for my dog.
The portion has become very small and there is hardly any meat but bones (I remove them thinking my blind dog will choke).

He is just close by me and I haven't got any to give.
 
Kiri Hodda is dilute and no spices except lot of Karapincha.
 
I think we should start burning Karapincha with a bit of chillies to get the devil out of the current flamboyant system.

W. Edwards Deming
The "Seven Deadly Diseases" include:
    1. Lack of constancy of purpose
    2. Emphasis on short-term profits
    3. Evaluation by performance, merit rating, or annual review of performance
    4. Mobility of management
    5. Running a company on visible figures alone
    6. Excessive medical costs
    7. Excessive costs of warranty, fueled by lawyers who work for contingency fees

Stream of Consciousness is mind boggling?

Stream of Consciousness is mind boggling?

This piece is a Hypothesis not a Concept to arouse investigation of the mind and its underlying force.

Some of the things proposed are outrageous but one should not throw away the basic tenet of the hypothesis due to inconsistencies.

I do not want to use the word consciousness and specially the subconscious mind with only two layers of mind (essentially matter or brain bound).

I prefer the eminent philosopher James William’s theme, the stream of consciousness as a near enough hypothesis.

The most outlandish statement to begin with is that the stream of mind (consciousness as stated in modern western terminology) does not necessarily need a brain or matter for its existence.

It can exist without the matter principle.

Even though, in Indian and Buddhist cosmology there are many domains of existence of beings, I would like to narrow it to three levels for the purpose of simplification but would dare say, the the potential and the sphere of the stream of mind is so limited.

In actual fact, it is very difficult to comprehend.

The three levels for discussion are;

1. Mind without matter principle, essentially an energy form with unlimited extensibility.

2. Mind with matter principle invariably bound to the matter in the form of neural system extending to the level of many “brain forms” (human brain is not supposed to be the ultimate and the highest).

3. The third is the transitional or subtle form, there is neither matter nor no matter but interaction of the stream of mind in many forms.

Why this subdivision?

It is all, to explain, the behavior of the mind of gifted individuals, mediums, those cultivated by meditation, those who posses ability to remember past lives, telepathy, hypnotic transgression and such experiences like tunnel vision in near death syndrome.

In the way, we look at in modern science, many of the above cannot be explained or disputed by mere conjecture or by preposition or hypothesis.

I won’t go into many details but start with few examples.

Take the case of amoeba. 

It is the simplest of living forms but it has an enormous amount of DNA material for its simple survival. The genetic pool is enormous for its simplicity. It does not have a brain or brain material to think and to do purposeful workout.

But seemingly handicapped, as it may sound, it does all what is necessary for living, reproduction and survival.

There is a purpose for survival and “the purposeful activity is not too different from a higher order animal with a primitive brain”.

The will for existence and purposeful collection of genetic material for future evolution into a higher form of being, yet without a brain.

I call this form of existence, “the brainy mechanism of sustenance” what a single cell accomplishes on its own. 

 

The single cell is the brain for its own existence.

When we take multiples of these cells when organized purposely as brains in different species including aliens that may exist in other worlds, the potential of the brain systems and stream of mind is enormous.

So one should not get surprised for somebody having telepathic ability or to communicate with the dead or subsequent lives or departed dear ones (assuming rebirth as distinct possibility) with paranormal ability.

Simple disputing of paranormal ability is not the way about it.

There were many in our history and often disputed (deliberately for vested interests)Ana Blasticova is a case in point.

We have not developed sufficiently sensitive instruments to detect these “energy forms” and EEG is not the “be all and end all instrument of detection”.

My personal view is we need a finely tuned ‘another higher brain’ to monitor these activities.

Not all of us have these abilities inbuilt.

It is the duty of the psychologists and psychiatrists to invest in these areas and training, instead of denial and disputation.

One way of developing this power is through meditation but only a few of us can sustain it to such a higher levels.

My own conviction is that the practice of meditation has many other benefits apart from achieving goals mentioned above and one should use it for one’s own higher transition rather than using it as a diagnostic tool.

But I won’t condone anyone who is pursuing scientific and diagnostic pathways.

Now let me dish out some outlandish views.

The mind on its own without a material base.

Can it exist on its own?

Where does its energy come from without a biological base?

If the cell can survive without a brain (amoeba) why not a mind without a brain?

In the material world there are so many energy forms including cosmic radiation.

In that spectrum not having an energy form called stream of mind (James William’s own description of the mind as a stream) is unacceptable to an inquiring mind.

If the medical world (I do not) could formulate something called subconscious mind for centuries, above hypothesis is an antithesis.

In the eastern cosmology, beings with subtle bodies with spiritually developed minds are tenable.

It is often said people who had attained different level of absorptions through meditation are born in these worlds and live a long life. It is also said these beings can travel vast distances from their mother planets and visit alternative universes.

In literal terms they are the Devas or Gods.

Extension of that theory is what I am proposing not the alteration of the eastern cosmology.

If that scenario is possible, that mind stream would penetrate atomic, subatomic and quantum levels of uncertainty and comprehend everything the modern science delve in.

So what?

That mind should theoretically (mind’s behavior is attachment to entities or ideas) be able to merge with subtle material and change (shape change described in alien films) its form at wish or will.

I think my hypothesis is going well beyond this world to other dimensions.

Is it 7, 10 or 13 or string theory of mathematics?

The possibility of the stream of mind is incomprehensible and vast.

Binding to a dogma, idea, religion, culture, politics, race or science is very narrow.

Try to discover your own mind potential but remain within the limits, lest you get virtually mad.

Come to think about it, this world is full of mad guys/girls especially in the political field.

How to become an Alien?

How to become an Alien?

Let me say a few words about Ceylon, to begin with.

It is very easy.

YOU just become a politician and get elected to the parliament.

From the time of the election and oath taking ceremony in the parliament you are like an Alien.
The police treat you like a special ENTITY only an alien could claim in Ceylon.

You never see them in the respective electorates.

Only hear them giving edited false information to the media until the parliament is dissolved and NEXT election is called in.

In Ceylon politicians are a special kind of Aliens but my intention is for an average citizen to become one and live happy ever after in any country in this world.


How?

1. Destroy (if you have one) the Birth Certificate and just declare that you have no document proof to say “You were ever born” on this planet but a celestial entity.
 
The benefits are enormous.

2. If You are in India, they will treat YOU like a God and build a temple in your name. 
You have to adopt a name like “Sai Baba” but not Sai Baba but “Reborn Sai Baba-R.S.B would do.
 
Or Reborn Jaya Lalitha (R.J.L).

3. In Ceylon, they will treat You like an ambassador, and then issue you an Alien Passport (Illegal) and send you to the underworld after the first assigned official work is finished.

Two benefits.
 
The finance Minister along with Prime Minister will pay you a courtesy visit.
The first official engagement is signing a foreign loan agreement.
 
Moment you finish with the politicians, the Drug Mafia will visit You and they want YOU to make a special money laundering engagement with celestial beings in Gold and Silver and not in Paper Currency or dollars!

Gold include what was left behind by the L.T.T.E. and all confiscated at Katunayake Airport.

4. In U.K. they make you an IRA agent.
 
Not the terrorist lot now defunct or in legislature NOW.
IRA stands for person without an Inland Revenue Agent or declaration form.

A special category declared by MI5 and MI6.

You are exempt from paying taxes including the VAT.
The kind of operation is similar to Ceylon but all your Gold and Silver (including ill-gotten money converted to gold) is stored in Mars for safety.

5. Now come to America.
You are not allowed to enter the New York city.
You are not allowed a Valid Visa but You can remain eternally anywhere within the Air Port (see the Terminal film please) but with a little difference.

Since you have an Alien Passport, the airport authority takes over your passport and put it in a special locker and call the CIA, NSA and the FBI.
 
Now these guys have no place or strategy since Mr. Trump is confirmed by the electoral colleagues.
They ask money to establish a special branch in the precinct of the New York Air Port.

Then they build a special complex with special ventilation mechanism to avoid Alien Viruses infecting the World.

Part of the Area 51 technology is brought in, to reverse engineer the putative Alien Craft.

You must pretend You can build one by mere Mental Energy and Meditative concentration but won’t talk until a safe island is built for YOU, offshore.

6.This is where the Chinese will come in.

They win the contract for building an artificial Island and the infra-structure to house the Alien Space Craft.

They will also have a covert operation to reverse engineer the Craft.

7. What will happen in Russia?

You will be treated like SNOWDEN, first at the air port (similar to New York) with red carpet for three years of viral quarantine and thereafter Siberia so that no Alien journalist can reach YOU except over the Internet.

This list can go on until all the countries in the world are covered (except the purely Catholic countries- re Aliens do not exist belief) with their idiosyncrasies superimposed.

8. What about Vatican?
 
They will archive YOU in FROZEN state (until the revisit of the Jesus is declared) for another 100 years if necessary.

No offense is meant to Christians, Methodists, Catholic or any alien denomination one belongs to and who are celebrating Christmas in style.

9. What will happen if the alien is in Saudi Arabia?

They will tag you a Nuclear Bomb and send you to Iran Nuclear facility for reinforcements and Alien enrichment.

10 What will happen in the UNO?
Nothing!

According to their documents no Aliens exist on this planet.

Rats and Squirrels

Rats and Squirrels 
This was written long time ago and Indians have taken a cue and showing our lads how to play cricket away from home.

If I don’t say something about rats having hated cats for their killing spree, the spirit of this blog site is not complete.

Before that, I must talk about the squirrels.

They are very intelligent and watchful (scientific in many ways) and social animals.

They are the first to alert of any danger and Pol Kittcha is the other guy.

They work in tandem when cats and snakes are around.

I have looked after many orphaned squirrels as a kid and gave it up after two major incidents.
 
1. The cat (killing one of my favorite squirrels)
 
2. When they are uprooted from their environment they become dependent and vulnerable to infections and one day I found in it’s nest thousands of tiny flea like creatures to which I did not have any remedy.
 
With advancing age, I realized that they deserve to go back and since then every squirrel or animals saved were nursed back to nature.

If you do not have cats at home one can get them (squirrels) to feed from your hand like pigeons and they love cheese like any cat.

Furthermore, do not have bird table if you have cats at home.

We have decimated our house sparrows and I am still wondering why they (house sparrows) disappeared in little over 20 years.

We cannot improve nature but we can make “live and let live” a simple principle.

Never ever try to improve nature knowing man is the biggest polluter and destructor of all living beings including man himself.

There is a house nearby where there is a bird table and I have often seen when the house is empty the cats from the neighborhood (including the cats of the same house catch birds).

They are not Buddhists but I often wonder this is one way to feed the hungry cats when they are away?

I never talk to them at the same breath as here but warn them and report them I have seen cats catching the birds and don’t leave food when they are away on the bird table.

This is where I want to write about wastage of food (the haves) in a lighter vein but perhaps not, except that my house is a classic example (I have been trying to make them understand for ages).

Now that coconut is fifty and tea is double the price and sugar and milk are up, going up by the wind (political), I make sure one article at home is in short supply, when asked to do the shopping!

Slowly but surely I am getting the message across through necessity.

Before I forget, I must state that India loses 40% of its grain to rats every year.

It is far better for the Indians, not to send their children to America for further study and corrupt them more but get them to do some ongoing research to minimize this waste and invest some I.P.L money to have this trend arrested and bring food prices down for the down trodden people who do not watch I.P.L. cricket.

They have done wonders for us and our team now even cannot make even 100 in test cricket.

Please kill our cricket in full then we won’t have corrupt politicians pulling strings behind the scene.

I wish English to white wash them in the coming series and (even without that we are going down precipitously) nobody can arrest the corrupt practices of politicians and their stooges at all levels which has ruined our cricket.

I was one of those who believed only way to arrest these corrupt practises (certainly not the ICC which is made corrupt by the IPL already) for us to lose and lose and then only few who love the game will play (like England County Cricket- Good example is Thescovisk of England) and without much crowd watching except the friends who join at the pub after the game.

In that case we can also go and watch cricket without a ticket like good old days with plenty of beer money saved (to purchase the ticket).

I am in the minority but sports should be for fun (not to destroy one physically) and not to make one fabulously rich and then lose touch with common sense.

I am way off the title but that was done deliberately (I am not going to write on cricket any more than what I have stated above and I have totally lost interest due to how it has become so corrupt) since what I am going to say from now onwards is not very appealing for a healthy being.

There are people on this earth who eat bats, squirrels and rats too.
 
There are rats bigger than some cats in India and some cats fear them.
 
We have of course big political rats of all shades.

I must mention here if anybody find a remedy for rat population he will get the next Nobel Prize.

I have seen rats in London Underground and now I believe they have made connections through the channel tunnel with rats from France who do not speak English but only French.

This was a big achievement of Mrs.Thatcher (Dame) and the idea was to get the message across through underground rats who will tell the French that English language originated from French.

Very clever political ploy or deal!

I am one who believes that rats fly through Trans Atlantic Airways to America from France and have made some good connection with American diplomatic rats without WiKiLeak tapes.

If not passenger flights, they are flying to America on cargo planes without having to get Visa from America or tickets for the flight.

They will have their head quarters near those hotels where IMF bosses play Pick a Boo.

I am told that the next IMF boss’s, one of the first priority jobs is to meet the rats alliance to discuss food storage in USA.

There is a grand world alliance of rats and they have a party every time the new candidate for Republican party is declared.

They (rats) now know that Americans are the best food wasters of the world.

I will list some cardinal facts about rats and then and finish with, how I used squirrels to complete with the rats.

1. I had to dissect rats with bare hands in school (please do not take this as a rag. Now present undergraduates need spoon feeding about leadership roles, which they will never get an opportunity with the present constitution which is being amended for third round or more).

2. It was uphill task to find one from the Municipality (there were rat catchers employed and some of them are now candidate for local elections after retiring fro their of posts and many of them are in the ruling party).

3. I once killed a rat in my rage for damaging a plastic top of a tin of baby milk powder imported during 1989 dark days.

4. His companion I could not kill but escaped. 
I never so that rat who was terrified with my temper tantrum.

5. I was angry that I missed the other one.

6. Then when the anger subsided, I asked myself why have you done that?

7. Plastic Micky Mouse Picture hanging on the wall told me a different story.

8. What is the different from a squirrel?
They almost look alike except the ugly long tail.

9. There should be a method to control not to kill.

10. Make the house rat friendly or is it not friendly?

Now I am a Mickey Mouse convert and my daughter was less than six months then and I am able to tell her that I kill a rat because of a tin of milk with plastic top?

Shall I make my children animal friendly?

Not due to religion but to simple logic that tells me that I have no right to kill or destroy any life.

Will I make them vegetarian?

In ten minutes of contemplation, I was a different person.

The next stage was to use my observation habits.
 
I looked for all the dwelling places of rats.

My rat research started, then and there.

It is based on rat friendly theme.

1. Baby Food were stored in either fridge or in steel cupboard.

2. Rat poison was banned from the house on the pretext of and lest the children be poisoned.

3. No rat traps

4. Store less food

5. Clean regularly and meticulously

6. Do not leave food out in the open, be that it may be, a bin, a table or the kitchen.

7. Cats were prohibited but one landed (black kitten) on a rainy day.

8. There were lot of opposition but I was the master of ceremony in charge little cat escaped from Kala Wadda.

9. After many months of perseverance and observation, I finally realized that rats never have their nests where squirrels were nesting. 
There was healthy competition and squirrels made sure that rats are chased especially when the young are nursed.

10. Rats make nest in total darkness, whereas squirrels need lot of day light.

Final conclusion no food no rats and if you have food put them in tight plastic or steel compartments.

90% of our problem will be solved.

Never ever keep your house / rooms not occupied a single day.

Every time you are out they know you are out they have a party late at night, like after the declaration of candidacy for next American Presidency.

There is a misconception that cats can see in total darkness and catch rats. 
The reason that rats prefer nocturnal activity is due to the fact that cats cannot see in total darkness. Cats have dark adaptation and the ability reflect light (photons) that had not impinge upon rods. 
Similar reflecting mechanism is used in roads to reflect light and that is why they are called cat’s eyes.
In addition cats have long whiskers to guide them in dim light.
So not feeding cats at night expecting them to catch rats is a total misconception.
However, Ceylon Civet (now Famous Kala Waddas are better at hunting rats at dim light than cats.
 
So it is better to have a Kala Wadda instead of cat at home but they are very secretive animals and avoid humans at all cost!

In Sri-Lanka rats come for a party only on President’s House where food is thrown at lib.

In our houses food is becoming scarce and most of our rats are hitchhiking to America.

The best way (Sri-Lankan way) to control rats is for us to eat less bread and rice.

We are on that pathway anyway, now.

India can follow without feeding their rats with stored grain.

Or else they should eat them without sending them across the Palk Straight for our consumption and make poor Indian strong enough to play IPL cricket (not test cricket).

CarrerIQ,s hideous attempt to snooze on YOU.

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 My bone of contention was CarrerIQ,s hideous attempt to snooze on YOU.

My reservation was prudent even though I did not have anything to hide or fear.

My Justification for not buying a tablet this Christmas (2011).

My justification for not immediately going for a 

tablet is holding true to its tenet.

They were mainly personal reasons.

1. I do not like any proprietary software installed.

2. I do not like proprietary operating system too.

3. Even if the above two conditions cannot be avoided I need my own or selected operation system run independently of the above two.

4. Have android is not my kind of game.

5. I prefer sourceforge EyeOS instead of Android or vagaries of Android even though I supported the move by Google from the very beginning its embrace of Linux (they did it for different reason now I understand).

6. I don’t like even Kindle fire in spite of very vocal support for its success above all the other E-readers.

7. Apart from the above facts, it cannot or does not let you boot from a smart card like in Barnes Noble tablet. 

In that scenario I prefer Barnes Noble in spite of the higher price.

8. Not having the USB boot function was my major attribute that is missing in Kindle fire. 

But I do not make qualm at this stage before it get established in the classroom. 

I want it to be successful in an educational environment and if one has camera and lot of other utilities it divert the attention of the students and teachers will have a hectic time preventing little guys hacking into the system without the teacher’s knowledge.

 It is natural for kids to do that kind of things. 

If they want to do that their mums and dads have to buy a separate tablet.

9. I need a dock for a proper keyboard at my age. 

I am not going to fiddle with my fingers and touch screen.

10. Now comes the crunch point. 

Carrier-IQ’s attempt to spy on YOU is OUTRAGEOUS. 

What ever their industrial justification the METHOD is worse than a dictator/king attempt to say that he/she is not nude in front of his her subjects while parading stark naked.

It is naked attempt to hoodwink the not so sophisticated ordinary guy/girl.

I thought only Microsoft applied that principle and now that they are rich they seem not to repeat their old mistakes.

It is the new companies want to get rich quickly coming from Asian subcontinent who would apply those tactics. 

Already there is hush every China built chip has associated spy ware (it may be a ploy of IBM and the chip manufacturer to undermine China. But there is no reason such a rich and powerful company with lot at stake will go down that pathway unless they know something is brewing in China. I tend to believe them knowing what China is.

Chinese and Indian guys did dirty things in this country prior to and during elections.

I retire into Christmas holidays not sporting a tablet or Kindle and my reasons are vindicated by and large.

It is prudent practice to wait and see policy and to see which direction the wind blows.

In this digital age one has to be not paranoid to believe anything they offer with market hypes and strategies.