Quantam and Particle Physics Con Game

Quantum physics is not a science of nature or natural science. What these theoretical scientists using quantum physics call "particles" are only "sparks of energy", which is not an observable (empirical) material reality.

Energy is the essence of material substances that gives the substance its mass. Energy is generally understood to be the capacity to do work; one needs energy to do work. But the scientists have not yet given us a proper definition of energy. If they had defined energy, people would have known what exactly energy is. And if people knew what energy was, the physicists would not have been able to take people for a ride in the name of "energy" -- just like Religious Priests, Mullahs and Pundits are taking people for a ride in the name of "God".

So let us first define energy before we go any further. The best definition that I have found for energy is the one given by Aristotle, who is considered to be the founding father of physics and the natural sciences. Aristotle defines energy as the "source of every thing's being and function". Physics, for Aristotle, is the "science of natures and natural changes". And the natural changes concerns energy.

Mass, length and time are properties, or concepts, that we use to *measure* (Sanskrit, 'maya') material substances and phenomena. In order to understand physical phenomena, natural philosophers -- called "physicists" after the 2nd half of the 19th century -- use the properties of Mass, Length and Time. Newton was the first philosopher to use these properties to define the Laws of Motion, given in his treatise the "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy". But there was a dispute between him and Leibniz on whether L (the living energy) = mv or mv2 (squared). And finally, after over 200 years of experimentation, in his 1905 paper, Einstein, using Maxwell's equations, proved that L = mv2 -- Einstein did not prove that e = mc2. It was only after Rutherford gave the atomic model in 1910, stating that atoms are sparks of energy, that Einstein, after 1912, started calling his equation e = mc2 (whether this is what is called "fudging", or not, you can decide for yourself).

In order to develop advanced technologies, scientists developed quantum physics, wherein they say that length and time can change, but not the mass. This is absurd, because if properties of length and time change, so will mass. That's why they have the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle -- we can never ever know the exact position and momentum of a particle, both at the same time. So what the modern theoretical physicists call particles is not some empirical observable reality, but is only a statistical equivalent.  This is why quantum physics cannot be used to explain nature or to understand natural reality. If we do, we get results like the famous Schrodinger's Cat, where we can show that a cat can be alive and dead at the same time, until one observes the cat.

And today the physicists, most of whom themselves don't understand quantum physics,  are fooling people about the beginning of the universe, the big bang theory, black holes, god-particle and what not, telling us that quantum physics can prove that. But this is all nothing but unsubstantiated hypotheses -- in short, bull shit.

Of course, quantum physics is a technological aid to develop advanced technologies. But then, just look at what the quantum technologies have developed -- atomic bombs and nuclear arsenal that can now destroy our planet and annihilate life on earth, or the Information Technology that has given USA and NSA the capability to infringe on our privacy and to snoop on whatever we say, write and declare. Seeing the technologies that these quantum physicists have developed, one begins to wonder if it is sane to allow these physicists to waste trillions of dollars worth of our earth's precious resources on their CERN type experiments, only to develop such technologies that enslave and degrade the common man!

Of course, the physicists will definitely tell us that it is necessary to spend the trillions, because if we don't, the physicists will lose their multimillion dollar incomes. Too bad, but Physics has now become a huge game for the Western powers. Are you, I ask, going to allow them to continue spending the trillions, which rightfully ought to be spent of feeding and clothing all the people on this planet?

Right now we are powerless against the tyranny of the Western Powers and their physicists. The only way out for us that I have realized is to develop the soul-power that's within each of us. Once each of us develops the soul-power that is inherent in each of us, the Western Powers will have no power left to control and dominate the common man. And we shall be finally free.

If you'd like to know about the Yoga to develop our soul-power, you can see my YouTube on Bhagavad Gita and also read these two articles on "Yogic science can Transform Education" from the embedded links.

Be Happy

Controlling Anger and Violence

Incidents of mania and rage are on the rise, leading to a lot of violence and sex violence nowadays. Anxiety, depression and suicides amongst our people are also steadily increasing. Although all these problems are mood or behavioral problems, most people have now started believing that they are all mental health problems. But actually, they are merely problems caused by our inability to control our passions. 

Reason is often completely in thrall to passion. And so, rational and cognitive techniques in education and in therapies are often quite ineffective. When our passions or emotions, anger and fear, get enraged, the clarity of our thinking suffers, and we tend to make mistakes and commit blunders – some people become aggressive and violent while others surrender meekly when threatened, unable to voice or do the needful . All the violence, sexual violence, crime and corruption that we are seeing around us today can, directly or indirectly, be attributed to our inability to control our passions. Anger and violence, including sexual violence, can diminish only when people learn the skill to control their passions and emotions.

Maslow’s 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation, which is being used quite successfully by management and human resource trainers to improve behavior of their workforce, is a general dynamic theory for controlling one’s passions and, for achieving self-actualization – realizing one’s own ability and potential. 

Passions are strong emotions that compel us to act. Passions arise in us to motivate and instigate us to satisfy our needs – the physiological needs and the psychological needs, namely the Safety needs, the Love and Belonging needs, and the Esteem needs. All our activities and behavior are motivated for the satisfaction these basic needs of ours.

And when any of these basic needs gets thwarted or threatened, we get angry or afraid, and tend to act irrationally, harming others or ourselves. This is what disturbs peaceful coexistence. Maslow’s brief needs gratification therapy gives us a way to become conscious of our psychological needs, which are very often largely unconscious, thus giving us the opportunity to control our passions.

The physiological needs, however, are the most powerful of all our needs and Maslow asks us to consider homeostasis, and correct our nutritional deficiencies, in order to satisfy these needs. Educators, unfortunately, do not teach us the way to satisfy our physiological needs. Leaving our physiological needs unsatisfied in times of stress can often lead to mood and behavioral problems, as you would understand by watching this short video and interview of mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUORK9RkTIQ

 

We have published two books on Maslow’s needs gratification therapy. One of them, The Lost Path, has been praised by Jeremy Hunter, professor of self-management at the Drucker Graduate School of Management in Claremont, California. The presentation I had given to the scientists of the Defense Institute of Psychological Research, DRDO Delhi, has also been well appreciated. I have also presented papers on the technique at various psychology conferences. You can check these out on our website: www.karmayog.org/ngo/behappy

As the incidents of anger and violence in the nation are on the rise, we have decided to give seminars and presentation at educational institution on the technique to control one’s passions and emotions. Another thing that must be noted is that, counselling and psychotherapy is often ineffective when the basic needs of the counselor remain unfulfilled. So your staff, counselors and trainers, would find Maslow’s humanistic needs gratification technique highly beneficial, not only for themselves but also in helping students and others to be in charge of their emotional responses and to avoid dysfunctional behavior.

Addiction: A Problem Created by Doctors for Monitory Gains

The ancient goal of medicine carved on a statue honoring physician E. L. Trudeau’s work at Saranac Lake is: “To cure sometimes, To help, often, To console, always.”[1] Pharmaceutical companies and drug manufacturers have not yet developed medicines that can cure most of our common diseases such as the common cold, cancer, heart diseases, diabetes, hypertension, mental disorders and so on. Hence physicians, who depend on pharmaceutical drugs for treating illnesses, are unable to cure most diseases, and are left with no alternative but to adopt palliative treatments – treatments that relieve pain and ease the symptoms without curing the disease.

Narcotic drugs and psychoactive substances are excellent painkillers and are also capable of giving instant relief, and opium has been prescribed by physicians to console patient since ancient times. After the discovery of the cocoa plant, physicians also began prescribing cocaine in the late nineteenth.[2] In 1898, the German pharmaceutical company Bayer started marketing a highly potent opioid painkiller – morphine diacetate or diacetylmorphine – under the trade name of Heroin.[3] So by the beginning of the twentieth century physicians had started prescribing the narcotic drugs and psychoactive substances such as heroin and cocaine.

Today we know that, “Virtually all the psychoactive substances exert their actions either directly or indirectly by altering neurotransmitter-receptor interactions in the biogenic amine—particularly dopamine—pathways. … most psychoactive substances act on the mesolimbic dopamine pathway. … the mesolimbic dopamine pathway allows a person to experience pleasure in response to pleasurable events or in response to certain substances.”[4] And, as “the major neurotransmitter implicated in addiction is dopamine,”[5] most psychoactive drugs, or substances, lead to addiction – drug dependence and tolerance. 

A hundred years back, when physicians began prescribing heroin and cocaine, they might not have known about the addictive nature of these drugs, but they must have soon realized it. Because, once a person starts taking these drugs, he soon becomes addicted to the drugs and requires a larger dose, or a more potent drug, to give him the same affects that earlier required a smaller dose. Soon, laws were put in place, in most countries, making the use of narcotic drugs and psychoactive substances illegal, unless prescribed and monitored by a registered medical practitioner.

But once a person gets addicted to these psychoactive drugs, the physiological urge to take more drugs that he develops is so overpowering that the anti-drug laws have not helped us much in curbing illegal drug usage. And as the physicians and psychiatrists continued prescribing the psychoactive drugs to their patients, the tolerance to the drugs developed by the patients made them seek out for more potent drugs. The pharmaceutical companies have given them the highly potent narcotic analgesics and psychoactive drugs for them to prescribe. 

However, now, after prescribing narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances to the nation for over a century, America has woken up to face the worst addiction crisis in its history – the prescription drugs abuse crisis.[6] And the number of people dying due to prescription drugs has skyrocketed: “Since 2003, more overdose deaths have involved opioid analgesics than heroin and cocaine combined” according to the January 13, 2012 report of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).[7]

Addiction costs the US governments almost half a trillion dollars each year, $200 billion of which is spent on healthcare costs.[8] When healthcare institutions and their affiliates – physicians/psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and pharmaceutical companies – make hundreds of billion dollars each year that they would lose if the addiction problem vanished, it would be unrealistic to expect psychiatrists, psychologists and physicians to tell everyone about the simple existing solution to the addiction problem. So let us now examine the solution. 

In 1943 Abram Maslow gave us a definitive theory of motivation in his paper A Theory of Human Motivation.[9] The theory, Maslow says, is based on his clinical observations. Every human organism has the need to attain self-actualization – that is, to attain one’s full potential, which Maslow calls ‘self-fulfillment’ and ‘becoming what one is capable of being’. 

In order to attain self-actualization, Maslow’s theory states, one has to first satisfy his deficiency needs – the physiological needs and the three psychological needs, namely the Safety needs, the Love and Belonging needs, and the Esteem and Achievement needs. These psychological needs are the same as the needs/drives contained in the inventory analysis (psychodynamics) that had been described in the 1939 book Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book). The inventory technique/path as followed by the AA founders had helped AA grow a thousand-fold in the 1940s, from 100 members in 1939 to 100,000 members in 1949. Maslow’s paper explains the psychology of the technique. 

The inventory analysis has been explained in details in the book “12 Steps in aDay” and can be used by anyone to help addicts and alcoholics to recover. It has also been reviewed by the professor of Self-management at the Drucker’s Collage of Graduate Management. 

HAPPY DIWALI & A FULFILLING NEW YEAR

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[1] Randolph Nesse and George C. Williams, Why We Get Sick, Vintage Books (1996), page 11

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine#Medicalization

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History

[4] Vander et al, Human Physiology: The Mechanism of Body Function, 9^th Edition(2004), Chapter 8 Consciousness, The Brain, and Behavior, pages 258-259

[5] Ibid., page 259

[6] http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/prescription-drugs/prescription-drug-abuse-america%E2%80%99s-problem?utm_source=Join+Together+Weekly&utm_campaign=779a11174d-JT_Weekly_News_Prescription_Drug_Abuse and http://www.thefix.com/content/america%E2%80%99s-newest-   and  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/education/edlife/jacobs31.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[7] http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6101a3.htm?s_cid=mm6101a3_w

[8] http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/addiction/new-casa-report-finds

[9] http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm

Yoga for Developing Emotional Intelligence

The following article appeared in last month's Khar Gymkhana magazine KRUTI.
 

We try and give our children the best of education. But, we find it very difficult to teach them the life-skills – handling anger and fear, and developing positive attitudes and skilful behaviors. This is mainly due to the fact that we use two separate modes for learning: one for acquiring information, and another for acquiring our skills. Physiology textbooks tell us that for us humans, ‘Learning is the acquisition and storage of information as a consequence of experience.’ We learn everything from our experiences, and we experience everything only by means of our senses. So basically we learn from all our senses – all our sense organs and the sense receptors in the body. 

Normally, we are taught to learn only by means of our external sense organs – mainly by means of our eyes and ears, from our audio-visual experiences – but not so much with our sense of touch. The things we learn from our external sense organs are the things about the external world. This learning about the external world helps us to control nature, and our environment. However, we are generally not trained to experience and learn from the things and activities going on in our own body. And so, we find it difficult to truly understand ourselves and to control our own nature – our attitudes, and emotions. 

The ancient Indian philosophers had developed a system of yoga to learn by means of the sense of touch – by observing the experiences of sensations in one’s own body. Thus by experiencing things within the body, they were able to understand themselves and control their human nature.

The primary requirement for our mind to learn – or in order to consciously learn – is that our attention must be focused on what we want to learn about, for at least a certain length of time. Most of the time, our mind is focused on the outside world or on our thoughts, but not on our body. In order to learn from our sense of touch, we need to shift our focus of attention away from the outside world and on to our body. This we can do by sitting in a quiet place with our eyes closed, and focusing our attentions on our body and its sensations.

When we do this, we start noticing all sorts of sensations on our body, sometimes pleasant sensations and sometimes painful ones. These pleasant and painful sensations are always occurring in the body. Whenever we interact with our environment we always experience either pleasant or painful body sensations. The things that the body learns from these body sensations make up our emotional learning. But as we are not conscious of these body sensations, the emotional learning is not learnt by the mind, which controls our conscious activities and behaviors, but by the brain, which is responsible for our instinctive responses. This is the reason why we instinctively react to our emotions, and why our mind finds it so difficult to control them.

We can use the ancient Indian technique to consciously observe our body sensations. By observing the body sensations, and continuously making the effort to bear them patiently without reacting to them, it becomes possible for us to avoid reacting instinctively to our emotions. This is how this yoga can be used to control our emotional responses and to develop our emotional intelligence.

This ancient Indian technique is called sankhya yoga or vipassana – vipassana is an ancient Indian word which means ‘sensory observation’ or ‘empirical observation’. It is a very simple technique, which can be easily learnt by everyone, and anyone who has learnt it can teach it to others. It is so effective that it helps even addicts and alcoholics to overcome their addiction problems and, it is also used to reform criminals in many jails, such as the W.E. Donaldson maximum security prison in Alabama, USA, and Delhi’s Tihar Jail. However, it is best to teach this technique to children before they start developing mood or behavioral problems. It also helps children to remain free from stress and to concentrate on their studies.

(The author is a self-management consultant, specializing in anger and conflict resolution, and addiction problems. He is the author of the books 12 Steps in a Day and The Lost Path. Contact: 9323715166, rajiv.behappy@gmail.com)

Doctors Can’t Make A Living if We Don’t Fall Sick

Everyone knows the importance of a balanced diet for ensuring their health and well-being. But hardly anyone knows what nutrients a balanced diet should contain, or how much of them a person needs. And so, we are unable to take the nutrients our body needs to remain healthy. This is the main reason why people fall sick and suffer from mood disorders and behavioral problems – dysfunctional or corrupt behaviors.

Proteins are the building blocks of life. 50% of the organic substance in our body is made up of proteins. All proteins are made from the 20 amino acids found in nature. If any one of these amino acids is deficient in our body, the body proteins that require the amino acid cannot be produced and our health suffers. To avoid health problems it is extremely important to get the requisite amounts of the essential amino acids in our diets. 

Malnutrition is a big stressor, especially in children. As such, it is extremely important that children get adequate amounts of amino acids in their diets. Doctors and healthcare institutions generally do not inform the public the exact amounts of the essential amino acids needed in a balanced diet. It is about time that educational institutions get the exact requirements of the amino acids from the concerned authorities, so as to ensure the health of at least our children. 

The amino acid tyrosine is particularly important for our mental health. Adrenaline, norepinephrine and dopamine are a group of neurotransmitters called the catecholamines. The textbook Human Physiology: The Mechanism of Body Function by Vander et al (8^th Edition, 2001, page 206) says, “The catecholamines are formed from the amino acid tyrosine” and that, “These neurotransmitters play essential roles in states of consciousness, mood, motivation, directed attention, movement, blood-pressure regulation, and hormone release.”

When the amino acid tyrosine gets depleted in the body, the catecholamines cannot be produced and we start developing problems in our moods, motivation, directed attention, movement/behavior – the symptoms of catecholamine deficiency. In times of chronic stress, our body releases excessive amounts of adrenaline. This results in the depletion of tyrosine and we start developing symptoms of mood and behavioral disorders, until the depleted amino acid tyrosine is restored by taking it in our diet or as a nutritional supplement. 

When tyrosine gets depleted and we start exhibiting symptoms of catecholamine deficiency, which psychologists diagnose as mental disorders and send us to the psychiatrists. And the psychiatrists do not tell us about the tyrosine deficiency or ask us to get an amino acid diagnostic test done, but instead prescribe us their psychoactive drugs, which often have dangerous side-effects – for instance, the amphetamine that they prescribe for children suffering from attention deficits, ADD/ADHD, are one of the most highly addictive substances known to man. Also, the January 13, 2012 report of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that since 2003 more overdose deaths have involved opioid analgesics (prescription narcotic drugs) than heroin and cocaine combined.

High-achievers and knowledge-workers often suffer from excessive stress, and the resulting catecholamine deficiency. As medical professionals do not tell the common man what their physiology texts say about tyrosine, stressed people are not aware that taking a tyrosine capsule can often make them fit again. So they are forced to self-medicate themselves with street drugs like cocaine and ecstasy, which are safer than the psychiatric medications. Unfortunately the Law targets, not the dangerous pharmaceutical narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances prescribed by psychiatrists and doctors, but the stressed out people, who are taking street drugs because they have been lied to by the doctors. 

It is quite unfortunate that doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists are not telling us the whole truth about Nutrition, and about stress, mental health and depression. The result of this suppression of information has resulted in a sharp increase in the number of children committing suicides and becoming addicted to alcohol and drugs, and also in dysfunctional and corrupt behavior. Don’t you think it’s about time the healthcare professionals are made accountable for the grave damage they are doing to society? Can you take up this matter with your MP, MLA, city counselor, and law enforcement agencies to correct the situation and save our children? 

If your organization – Club, Gymkhana, NGO, ALM, School, College or Educational Institution – would like a talk on this important topic, or for consultation on the way to develop emotional intelligence, please contact me on: rajiv.behappy@gmail.com For more information, do check the “Article” on our NGO's websites www.karmayog.org/ngo/behappy