The Institutional Racism of Western Academia and

Western Pretensions to Universalism

White Supremacist colonial pseudoscience persists in 'History & Philosophy of Science' and the false conflation of 'European' with 'scientific' permeates Western academia. Even supposedly 'Indophile' historians perpetuate such myths and western 'Indophile' New Agers pander surreptitiously to these racist preconceptions. BBAB demonstrates that, contrary to the White Supremacist myth of the 'Greek Miracle' (still touted by the likes of Richard Dawkins), postmodern maths, physics, cosmology and phenomenology/cognitive science are far more in accord with ancient Indian metaphysics than with ancient Greek metaphysics.

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THE BIGGEST LIE IN HISTORY:
THE SUPPOSEDLY BENEVOLENT BRITISH EMPIRE

In recent years, UK PM Gordon Brown (Labour) and  Tory Education Minister Michael Gove (both Scots) have attempted to 'whitewash' the British Empire of its racist Crimes Against Humanity [It should be noted that Adolf Hitler admired the British Empire and wanted to emulate it]. Both turned to fellow Scot, the Glaswegian Niall Ferguson to revise History Education. Neocon Ferguson is notorious for peddling Kipling's racist 'White Man's Burden' fiction (such as the Brits acting heroically to save starving Indians - or Raj officials working themselves to early death in order to help India prosper) as if this fictional, self-justifying propaganda was historical fact! BBAB exposes the British colonial demonization of Indian tradition [primarily so-called 'Hinduism'] and the ongoing falsification of Indian history in order to deflect blame for two centuries of British economic 'parasitization' of India.1 This included the looting of India's foodgrains resulting in dozens of British-inflicted famine holocausts killing tens of millions of Indians (whilst simultaneously providing food security and great financial benefit to Britain​2). Brainwashed, self-hating, English-educated Indians ('intellectual sepoys' 3) tend to perpetuate such myths in order to pander to their White 'masters' and thus advance themselves in Western-dominated institutions (which, as with the old Raj bureaucracy, promote only the 'humble and obedient servant') 4 .

A recent study, published by Columbia U.P., estimates that Britain robbed India of over $45 trillion (at today's rates)5:

https://www.livemint.com/Companies/HNZA71LNVNNVXQ1eaIKu6M/British-Raj-siphoned-out-45-trillion-from-... https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-trillion-india-181206124830851.html  

Surprisingly, a British paper did cover this story - even more surprising - it was the right-wing tabloid Daily Express (See Note 5 below) - the reporter Anna Kretschmer had only joined the paper a month earlier.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1059012/india-news-bombshell-how-british-empire-stole-36trillion-from-india-lied-spt

1 Indeed racist Scot James Mill (the father of John Stuart Mill,rose to 2nd-in-command of the East India Co. {EIC}) was largely responsible for the demonization of Hinduism and creating the myth that India [which, prior to British occupation, was famed for its wealth] was a land of eternal poverty. Mill also tried to 'whitewash' Plato's works of Mysticism and Oriental influences. 

2 In 2013, I saw an episode of the BBC TV series Who Do You Think You Are in which Kenyan-born actor Nitin Ganatra traced his roots back to Gujarat. His ancestors had emigrated to East Africa in the 1890s to build the Uganda Railway. We were told that they chose this harsh life in order to escape famine but nothing was said of the actual causes of the 1890s famines in Western India (Gujarat was hardest hit) in which at least 19 million died (according to The Lancet in 1901) whilst record amounts of India's foodgrains were exported (see below​).​
3 Rajiv Malhotra coined this phrase 'intellectual sepoy' which reflects accurately the mercenary behaviour of Indian intellectuals pandering to their White 'masters' (i.e. Western patrons) paralleling the sepoy mercenaries who served under the colonial European rulers in India. I find it rather amusing to see British Sikhs boasting of the role of Sikh troops in the Great European War of 1914-18 - the British rewarded them in 1919 by getting Sikh sepoys  to fire on fellow Punjabis (mainly Sikhs) in the Amritsar Massacre. The hypocrisy displayed by the Anglo-Americans over Nazi German racism is especially clear in the racial segregation that he US Army brought over with them to Britain in the 1940s. I recall hearing the Afro-American fighter pilot Alexander Jefferson stating on a TV programme how he was treated with dignity by White men for the first time when he was imprisoned in a Nazi German prison. He said of his return to New York City: Having been treated by the Nazis like every other Allied officer, I walked down the gang plank wearing an Army Air Corps Officer's uniform towards a white US Army sergeant on the dock, who informed us "Whites to the right, niggers to the left."​  Even in the 1960s, Black US soldiers returning in uniform to the Deep South were sometimes shot by the Ku Klux Klan.
4 The UK prohibited publication (and the US would not publish) the work by the Bengali Radabhinod Pal who was the only non-European judge at the 1946 Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and the sole dissenting voice. Whilst recognizing that the Japanese  had committed atrocities, Pal also recognized the 'Victor's Justice' being meted out under the cloak of 'law' and the hypocrisy in regard to European colonial atrocities in Asia. In July 2015, the ex-UN official and Congress politician, Shashi Tharoor did make a speech at the Oxford Union pointing out how Britain grew rich by economic looting of India covering some of the points I have made in both O/OM and BBAB. At the same time BBC2 did show a couple of TV programmes about the huge compensation scheme in the 1830s which gave Britain's 46,000 slave-owners the equivalent of £16.5 billion for loss of their human 'property'. The largest beneficiary was John Gladstone (father of Liberal PM William Gladstone). The family of the UK PM David Cameron also benefited as did the ancestors of Richard Dawkins. Britain's wealth was largely built both through the brutal exploitation of African slaves for as well as through the brutal looting of India. In both cases the profits from such exploitation benefited the whole of British society, providing huge capital investments in new industries and funds for social reforms for Britain's poor (as well as Food Security from Indian foodgrains). As with the Liberal PM Gladstone's huge inheritance from slavery, Charles Dickens (presented as a social liberal toward poor Britons) opposed the Abolition of Slavery and wrote of exterminating all Indians. Gladstone's Tory rival Benjamin Disraeli's personally appointed henchman created 'Death Camps' in India for the victims of the 1877 British-inflicted famine holocaust in Madras Province.

5 Contrast these facts with the delusional, hypocritical rantings of the 'Middle England' readers of the right-wing Daily Mail [a tabloid which supported Hitler and British Fascist Oswald Mosely in the 1930s] and Daily Express who regularly comment under articles about India's achievements in Space or Republic Day military parades that the Indians must be spending UK Foreign Aid money on their Space programme and military etc. In fact the UK no longer gives aid money to the Indian government and what it gave was paltry compared to the sums Britain stole from India [$45 Trillion is 17 times the size of the UK's GDP]. It was Britain that corruptly used stolen Indian wealth to finance its Industrial Revolution, overseas investments, imperial wars, development of White-settler colonies etc. Jason Hickel states correctly in his Al Jazeera article, the British still peddle the myth that the Empire was benevolent and that Britain was actually losing money through its occupation of India! It is not just right-wing tabloids: in late 2018 I complained to the BBC as their web article about the city of Pune used a picture of the slums giving a totally false impression of this fairly wealthy city - but this is typical in British media coverage. The BBC did change their image.

Western Academics conflate ‘European’ with ‘Scientific’

(The N1, N2, N3... indices in the text below refer to the endnotes given below the text).

The tacit racism that pervades Western academic studies of the History and Philosophy of Science, general Western ‘Philosophy’ and so-called ‘Consciousness Studies’ is a major underlying theme in The Brainstem Brainwaves of Atman-Brahman: The Synthesis of Science and Spirituality (BBAB), just as it was in my first book The Oneness/Otherness Mystery.Highlighting these Western Taboo subjects has been a major factor in the West where publishers are often linked to the major media organizations. This racism is often politely referred to as ‘Eurocentrism’ but this label tends to suggest that the Western writer remains ignorant of non-Western history and knowledge. In fact, as BBAB demonstrates, suppression of the Indian origins of many ideas and of Indian influences on major scientific ideas and thinkers, along with asymmetric treatment of non-European of non-European knowledge in so-called ‘Comparative Studies’ continues today. Ironically, even Western academics who present themselves as ‘Postmodern’ and write books purportedly criticizing the ‘Orientalism’ of the past (such as Fred Dallmayr in his Beyond Orientalism and Richard King in his Orientalism and Religion – see below – actually exhibit new forms of Eurocentric ‘Neo-Orientalist’ bias as my work exposes).

            It is not only ‘White’ people (of European origin) who perpetuate such racist myths. English-educated Indians in India have been indoctrinated in the Macaulayite* colonial system of rote learning in schools and Western-style universities in which the same Eurocentric knowledge predominates. Given their lust for jobs in wealthy Western society and their unquestioning, deferential attitude towards the West as fount of all knowledge and hence international recognition, most Indian academics remain eager to act as lackies for their White ‘masters’ (patrons). The Macaulayite Indian elite (parodied as the Bandor lok or Monkey People aping the (White) Humans in Kipling’s Jungle Book) are happy to eke out a Second-Class-Citizen niche for themselves in a White-dominated world, taking the scraps from the White People they idolize (and suffer inferiority-complexes in relation to) in secure professions which the more ambitious and creative Whites fail to fill such as tax accountants,  ghetto-doctors, non-creative text-book-writing university teachers etc. Indian-American Christian Richard Crasta has satirized the obsequious behaviour of Western-educated Indians in his Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery noting how Indians who have success in the West are notorious for not helping aspirant fellow Indians as they seek jealously to retain their own privileged status as ‘Native Informant’ – the Darkie whom the Whites refer to when they want to know about the Darkies. The Indian who achieves some success in the West sees himself or herself as an ‘Honorary White’ and looks down on other Indians. Some even denigrate people of African-origin in order to get in with the White-dominated Republicans in the USA or the Tories in the UK (the party of Benjamin Disraeli and Winston Churchill who were responsible for genocide in India). Those that succeed in the West are those who play to the stereotype of the non-threatening, humble and obedient servant who says what the Whites want to hear [RC].N1,N2

*In his famous Minute on Education (1835) Thomas Macaulay stated famously that he had never met a single Oriental who would not deny that a single shelf in a good European library was worth more than the entire literature of India and Arabia. He also referred to India's 'absurd metaphysics' and 'absurd theology' [as opposed to the Christian Truth!]. The aim of this colonial English education was to create a class of Indian intermediaries who were wholly English in their mindsets. Uncritical English-educated Indian Leftists continue to take British and Marxian myths as Gospel Truth whilst dismissing anything tainted by 'Hinduism'. In his 1835 Minute​, Macaulay had also chastised the Mughal rulers for their use of pousta (opium) to poison slowly their rivals by ruining their minds, claiming that the British would never do such things: "It is no model for the English nation. We shall never consent to administer the pousta to a whole community – to stupify and paralyse a great people..." Yet soon afterwards, as Minister of War, Macaulay tried to justify British aggression against China after China tried to curb British opium-trafficking which was poisoning the minds of a great people!

            Few people know of the controversy of the Surkotada Horse Remains which challenged the now scientifically-discredited but still peddled White Supremacist Western myth of the Aryan Invasion of India (see below). A.K. Sharma had to wait 20 years for vindication of his claim to have found remains of domesticated horses at Surkotada. Indian supporters of the orthodox Aryan Invasion model refused to believe the facts until a White expert Sandor Bokonyi came to India and confirmed Sharma’s findings [EB].N3 More recently we had the ‘Glaciergate’ scandal which reflects the Judaeo-Christian Apocalyptic mythology which resurrects itself so frequently in Western Science (with its ‘End-of-the-World’, ‘Save-the-Planet’ scare-mongering as with Paul Erlich’s Overpopulation Crisis and the ‘Global Cooling’ hysteria in the 1970s and the late 1990s ‘Millennium Bug’ mass hysteria). It is not surprising that, like British-knighthood-bearing, India-bashing Trinidadian novelist Sir (!)V.S. Naipaul, Dr Raj Paichuri was made a Nobel laureate by the Europeans. This Westernized Oriental Gentleman was surely voicing the views of his White superiors when he claimed that the Indian Government research which debunked the rapid retreat of the Himalayan glaciers propaganda was ‘Voodoo Science’. N4

               Rajiv Malhotra has raised the issue of India’s nouveau riche billionaires and even the Indian government, sponsoring and giving awards to US scholars of Indology and Hinduism even though some of these scholars actually produce works which denigrate falsely India’s native culture. This includes the likes of Columbia University’s Sheldon Pollock who has claimed absurdly that Hitler was essentially a Hindu and thus trying to blame Hinduism for Nazism [BI] N5. Such is the depth of the inferiority-complex and self-hatred in Westernized Indians that any association with prestigious Western institutions, however condescending and misleading their research, is nonetheless displayed as a badge of honour by the fawning Indian bandor lok! It is interesting to note how Yale University was founded by with the fruits of the corruption of ex-EIC man Elihu Yale who was sacked by the EIC but allowed to keep his ill-begotten gains [JD]. Although brought up as a Christian in India, Crasta makes the following observation (which is especially pertinent in regard to my own work which established the scientific basis of Indian metaphysics) [RC]:
What a yogic feat, what a giant leap for one of the world’s oldest, greatest, and philosophically exalted cultures: from becoming one with Brahman... ...to impressing the whites... we have surrendered our souls to white worship... and self-hatred... Inside our heads, Indian civilization has been defeated by Western values and materialism.

            There is a clear tendency in Western academia and intellectual circles to conflate falsely ‘European’ with ‘Scientific’, as if the fact that a scholar is European automatically grants ‘scientific status’ and hence supposed legitimacy to their ideas. This is clearly seen in appeals to the supposed authority of Immanuel Kant in regard to the Western denial of even the possibility that humans can transcend sensory and conceptual knowledge to attain a Third Mode of Direct, Unmediated Knowledge of the Metaphysical or the Noumenal (things as they are in themselves – as opposed to mediated percepts). My interpretation of Enlightenment as a ‘Retreat-toward the Brainstem’ (‘Unhumanization’) undermines Kant’s naive belief. Western Kantians appealing to Kant’s belief as indisputable fact (such as anti-Perennialist Stephen Katz), rarely ever mention how Kant arrived at his conclusions [it is simply assumed that Kant 'proved' this]. In his recent book Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism Kenneth Westphal actually argues that Kant’s little-discussed method of “transcendental reflection” (used in the Critique of Pure Reason to (supposedly) justify the necessary a priori conditions for self-conscious human experience) does not actually support Kant’s ‘Transcendental Idealism’ but rather Realism. Kant’s actual method involved merely speculative ‘thought-experiments’ [KW].

            Indian yogic philosophy knew of the Time/Space matrix of Perception generated by the flow of the Inner Light (and of its transcendence in deeper states of Consciousness) millennia before Kant, based on actual phenomenological disclosures (not speculation). As we have seen, Husserl’s co-worker Eugen Fink rediscovered this ‘Time/Space Matrix’ in his analysis of Husserl’s phenomenological disclosures in the 1930s [RBr]. The fact that Realism is an untenable epistemology, as recent Cognitive Science research demonstrates, need not concern us. The fact remains that Kant’s arguments are based on unsubstantiated and tenuous speculation rather than facts-of-experience. After his Nature Mystical experience of Ego Dissolution, the great physicist Ernst Mach (the 'Godfather of the New Physics' who inspired the likes of Einstein and Heisenberg to challenge conventional assumptions) realised that Nature was sentient (Panpsychic) and that Kant’s notions of unknowable noumena and an unchanging ego were nonsense. Mach had a deep interest in Buddhism and Indian Philosophy [DSk, SG]. Presumably inspired by his mystical experience, Mach put forward the first relativistic principle in modern Physics in relation to inertia. Similarly, inspired by Indian Tantric Philosophy and his friendship with Vivekananda, Nikola Tesla had wanted to demonstrate the energetic basis of matter before Einstein's 1905 work [JDo]. Immanuel Kant actually spent more time teaching on the (supposed) nature of Man than on Epistemology. Kant's hierarchical view of humans was that only Ancient Greeks and modern Western Europeans could be considered full persons [BBC4] and that negroes were only fit for beating severely into servitude [BAWB].

               Wilhelm and Rawlinson are not alone in arguing that Kant’s noumena/phenomena distinction was inspired by the Brahmanic Maya as it is essentially the same [W&R]. There is overwhelming evidence, commonly known at the time, proving that post-Kantian German (so-called) Transcendental Idealism was derived from the European translations of the Hindu Upanisads. The fact that both Heisenberg and Schrödinger (the latter having been an advocate of Advaita Vedanta from before his invention of the Wave Equation) have both claimed to have been partly inspired by Indian metaphysics in their invention of the revolutionary new Physics known as Quantum Mechanics in the 1920s can be seen as the culmination of this massive Indian influence on modern German thought which Schopenhauer had predicted would lead to a New Renaissance. It should not be surprising that Quantum Mechanics indicates a Space-Time transcending ‘Quantum Reality’ underlying material phenomena. Yet, as with the Hindu influences (e.g. vast time-scales, reincarnation as progressing through ever more complex forms etc.) and Indological (e.g. William Jones’ notion of a Common Ancestor of Indo-European languages) on the origins of the concept of Biological Evolution pointed out by Raymond Schwab in his Oriental Renaissance [RS], mainstream Western Historians and Philosophers of Science continue to suppress such Indian influences upon scientific ideas. As stated elsewhere, I found that Michel Bitbol had recently suppressed the Indian Vedantic world-view behind Schrödinger’s philosophical writings. Schrödinger stated explicitly that Quantum Mechanics reflects the Unity and Continuity of Vedanta - in fact, Schrödinger was the first physicist to emphasize the radically new, deeper Wholeness/Interconnectedness underlying the world of seemingly-separate phenomena implied by Quantum Mechanics and, in his communications with Einstein, coined the term Entanglement).

            Similarly, we have seen that mainstream Western academic Philosophy rejects the notion of Pure (objectless) Consciousness due to its dogmatic adherence to (Catholic theologian turned psychological philosopher) Franz Brentano’s illogical (Scholasticism-influenced) notion of ‘Intentionality’ (that Consciousness is always ‘consciousness-of-an-object) which the likes of Robert Forman and Jean-Paul Sartre have rubbished. Forman points out the fact that, were Consciousness not distinguishable from its content, we could not even conceive the thesis of intentionality. As Sartre said, ‘intentionality’ is the notion that we are confronted with a concrete presence which is not-Consciousness. Forman also points out that neither Brentano nor Husserl asserted that all experiences were intentional, they were only referring to a class of mental phenomena [RF]. We have seen that the actual Bio-Medical knowledge of the RAS contributing to the ‘Arousal’ component of Consciousness as distinct from the ‘Content-of-Consciousness’ (which Medicine assumes comes solely from the cerebral cortex) immediately constitutes strong evidence against the tenability of the mainstream Western dogma of Intentionality! This same Arousal/Content distinction also undermines the Constructivist thesis repeatedly regurgitated by anti-Perennialist scholars of Religion that there cannot be a Universal Spirituality based on the Common-core Mystical Experience of the Inner Light (which is near-identical across traditions) as there exists no ‘Unmediated’ or ‘Unconditioned’ mental process. This argument is again asserted without any basis in scientific facts. The RAS actually constitutes exactly such an ‘Unconditioned’ (i.e. it is not conditioned or altered by cultural indoctrinations) and ‘Universal’ (i.e. it is the same in all humans) brain process. Thus once again dogmatic assumptions of mainstream Western academics are undermined by actual scientific facts!

   Although very naive in many of their philosophical arguments (such as dismissing the existence of yogic Pure Consciousness and ignorance of the mystical basis of Plato's metaphor of the cave etc.), in their introduction to Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought, Lakoff and Johnson make a very pertinent argument against the fashionable 'Postmodern' Relativism that is bandied about by so many Humanities academics. They state, "The mind is not merely embodied but embodied in such a way that our conceptual systems draw largely upon the commonalities of our bodies and of the environments we live in. The result is that much of a person's conceptual system is either universal or widespread across languages and cultures. Our conceptual systems are not totally relative and not merely a matter of historical contingency, even though a degree of conceptual relativity does exist...(emphasis mine) [L&J]. In fact, it becomes quite clear from my Retreat-to-the-brainstem interpretation of enlightenment as to why mystical traditions from around the world resemble each so dramatically in their deepest, most advanced stages. The superficial experiences are based in the highly differentiated cortex where cultural conditioning has a major influence. However, as the mystic's ego subtilizes into deeper structures of the brain the experiences become radically similar as they involve the deeper brain structures, especially the brainstem, and universal processes common to all humans. Thus the Perennialists argue for a Common Core Universal Mysticism based on mystical experiences of The Light which bear such strong cross-cultural similarities.These deep, common universal processes are what Jung referred to as 'archetypes'.

            In 2008 I discussed the absurdities (rewarded with honours from US academia) peddled by the so-called ‘Queen of Hinduism Studies’ from Chicago University (it is not only economic absurdities peddled by the Chicago mob!) Wendy Doniger (O’Flaherty) in my comments concerning the book Invading the Sacred entitled “Undermining the Walls of the Ivory Towers of White Mythology” (see http://invadingthesacred.com/content/view/59/52/). I have provided there a vast amount of actual scientific facts undermining the long-discredited secularized Kabbalistic superstitions peddled as ‘science’ by that fraud and charlatan Sigmund Freud. As mentioned there, Doniger is not alone in claiming ‘scientific status’ for her absurd reduction of Hindu myths to Freudian ‘it’s all about sex’ nonsense.

            Given such deeply entrenched prejudices and bias in Western academia (as elaborated below), there is little surprise that such views also permeate the mainstream Western media. In 2009 the London Times had an article about the well-known BBC TV Naturalist David Attenborough supposedly seeking a ‘New Darwin’. I put up a comment below the on-line article pointing out how my RAS-brainwave correlate of the Divine Light and Science-Mysticism synthesis has far more profound implications for humanity’s understanding of both our place in the Cosmos and in terms of undermining religious superstitions than the works of Darwin had. The Times website refused to allow my comment to remain until I sent an email to the editor complaining about this brazen bias and pointing out the quotes from distinguished science professors I had received in regard to my work. I even sent a print copy of the evidence for the RAS correlation and quotes from professors etc. to Attenborough but, not surprisingly, he did not respond. As numerous writers have pointed out, mainstream Western scientists and intellectuals go into a psychological mode of Denial when confronted with facts that contradict their dogmatically-held belief in Materialism (and also their subliminal prejudices in regard to non-European knowledge).

            BBAB also undermines Postmodern scholar Richard King’s claims in his Orientalism and Religion to dismiss the (supposedly self-aggrandizing) Neo-Hindu claim [also made by Perennialists such as Aldous Huxley] that Advaita Vedanta represents a rational, Universal Spirituality [RK]. King is ideologically hidebound to H.G. Gadamer’s absurd ‘hermeneutic’ relativism which imagines that the ‘anything goes’ interpretations of Literary Criticism of poetry and novels [where the interpreter can make up any interpretation they choose] can also be applied in serious, philosophical/scientific disciplines [as if there are no universal facts]! As with other so-called 'Existentialists' Gadamer's own ontological preconceptions were based on Heidegger's early work Being and Time which was never in fact finished and Heidegger himself, unlike Existentialists, moved on from such inchoate notions. Gadamer, as with other non-scientific Humanities scholars, also apotheosizes Language as if it is more fundamental than Consciousness! Interestingly, Dallmayr tells us that Heidegger himself later came to see his more mature thought* as according with Buddhist views [FD]. King also imagines that Nargarjuna’s views contradict Perennial Philosophy with its Universal Ground Consciousness, when, as Herbert Guenther points out [HG], Tibetan Buddhists view Nagarjuna’s Middle Way as the worst form of Logical Reductionism and have no problem with Perennialism. Western Buddhophiles love Nagarjuna’s ideas as it appeals to their own Reductionistic preconceptions of what Buddhism should be rather than what it really is. The great Chinese Buddhist patriarch Tsung-mi also dismissed the pseudo-profundity of Nagarjuna’s negative word-mongering as appealing to those who failed to attain actual experience of the (unborn and uncreated) Ground Consciousness [RMG].

*Heidegger's philosophy was largely an attempt to reinterpret the theology of the likes of Thomas Aquinas and (the great mystic) Meister Eckhart in phenomenolgical terms. In BBAB, I show that the late Heidegger's ereignis dynamics of lichtung (Lighting) process underlying the human 'lifeworld' (i.e. egoic existence) are a reformulation of the perennial myth of the upwelling fountain-like Godhead; in Heidegger's speculations (having rejected Husserl's correlation of Being and Consciousness), this fundamental 'Lighting' is an upwelling of Being and Time.

            In 2008 I wrote a scathing critique of Fred Dallmayr’s supposedly Postmodern Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter. Dallmayr began by restating Gadamer’s 1989 claim that ‘Unity in Diversity’ was intrinsic to Europe and Europe should teach this to other civilizations. In fact, the phrase ‘Unity in Diversity’ was coined in the early 20th Century by British Indologist Vincent Smith to refer to the Hindu Tradition and was widely used by Indians including Jawarharlal Nehru as something other civilizations should copy from India. Once again, a positive aspect of non-European culture has been misappropriated and presented as European. German-born Dallmayr also referred to possible caste hierarchy influences behind Sankara’s philosophy whilst keeping quiet on the actual Nazism of his hero Martin Heidegger to whom he referred repeatedly in the book! Interestingly, Dallmayr mentioned that his old friend Wilhelm Halbfass (author of India and Europe: An Essay in Philosophical Understanding) had late in life turned towards the (language-analysis obsessed) Anglo-American Analytical Philosophy [the epitome of anal-retentive modern Western Logical Reductionism which any impartial observer would recognize has proven to be a blind alley in which western logicians find themselves having stuck their heads up their own backsides]. Such Anglo-American Analytics have also suppressed the explicit positive references to Mysticism in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus *[AS].

*In O/OM I mentioned how Bertrand Russell had been shaken by the early Wittgenstein's Logical Reductionist dogmatism (with its 'Gospel of Exactness') and Russell, referring to Tagore, dismissed Indian Philosophy as vague, meaningless nonsense. In contrast, Wittgenstein himself was to mature philosophically and, in the 1920s and 30s would turn his back on the Logic Reductionists of the Vienna Circle and read out loud from Tagore's (mysticism-infused) poetry!

            The US academic ‘philosopher’ Richard Rorty peddled Literary Criticism style writings posing as serious philosophical analysis. In the conference proceedings book of the University of Hawaii’s 6th East-West Philosophers’ gathering entitled Culture and Modernity [C&M], Rorty’s LitCrit essay on Heidegger, Dickens N6 and Kundera was given pride of place as the opening essay. Rorty was famous for his absurd Eliminative Materialism which denies the actual existence of Consciousness (as in fact does the quite obviously false Galilean ontology underlying Natural Science). Rorty also coined the pejorative phrase ‘folk psychology’ used by Materialists to pretend that one is more scientifically-literate, philosophically sophisticated and less naive than one’s opponents and used cynically and misleadingly by Materialist philosophers to dismiss opponents without argument. In his Culture and Modernity essay, Rorty claimed to dismiss the Transcendentalist mystical notions of philosophers such as Heidegger and the Brahmins (to ‘penetrate the veil of appearances’) using the vacuous Kabbalistic superstitions of Sigmund Freud (i.e. mystical philosophers were supposedly sublimating the (actually imaginary) Freudian libido in order to pretend that they were more manly than the warriors! Alongside the superstitions of Freud, Rorty reduced human beings to Skinner’s Behaviorist pigeons claiming that there is nothing more (such as mystical experience) than pleasure and pain! Yet such pseudo-scientific gibberish claiming to disprove the claims of mystical philosophers as being but self-aggrandizing fraud was given pride-of-place in a conference in which philosophers from the East were supposed to be in constructive dialogue with their Western counterparts! The mystical basis of most Eastern philosophy was thus rubbished on pseudo-scientific grounds (posing as scientific – as the proven fraud Freud and ultra-Reductionist Skinner were both Westerners) without any challenge in Culture and Modernity.

       I would add here that academics in Indian Philosophy are, almost always, scientifically illiterate and churn out vacuous papers based on etymological renderings of Sanskrit terms. I recall reading a few years ago a book of papers on Indian philosophy and Phenomenology by the late well-known Indian Philosophy academic turned Husserlian J.N. Mohanty. The papers would have been incomprehensible to the layman. After ploughing through the entire book I cannot recall finding a single useful insight presented by Mohanty. Anyway, the point is that the counter-arguments and facts which undermine the sort of pseudo-scientific rubbish claiming to prove that mystical experiences are made-up fantasies peddled by the likes of Rorty are not possessed by scientifically-illiterate academics in Indian Philosophy. Indeed, the only real source of incisive counter-arguments to these anti-mystical myths peddled dogmatically by the mainstream Westerners is my work undermining the views of Kant, Brentano, Constructivism and Jung (see 'Historical Firsts' point 10 - my work actually explains in scientifically valid and epistemologically consistent arguments how phenomenological introspection can indeed reveal profound ontological and cosmological insights).

  Heinrich von Staden, who in the past was a Eurocentric Classicist, has recently come around to Bernal’s point of view. Von Staden points out that whereas Hippocrates’ treatise on sacred disease with its criticism of magic and divine causes has been repeatedly translated, there is no English translation of Hippocrates’ gynaecological treatises which are replete with the “otherness” of Greek science[BAWB].   In the 20th Century, many of the top ‘Western’ scientists were Jews. Although some may be descendants of Afro-Asiatic “Semites”, the Eastern-European Ashkenazi are in fact descendants of Hunnic and Turkic people from Central Asia. In either case, they are not of Germanic or Celtic origin. In fact, whilst Dawkins and Wolpert rubbish Mysticism and claims of paranormal phenomena, the likes of Parmenides, Pythagoras, Empedocles and Plato were not proto-scientists, as Eurocentrics try to present them, but shamanic healers, magicians and mystics. Chemistry came from Alchemy, Astronomy from Astrology and much Mathematics (including the concept of Zero) from numerological mysticism. In fact Kepler’s heliocentrism was based on his Pythagorean mystical interest in cosmic harmonies hence the title of his great work is Harmonice Mundi. But Kepler himself (unlike Wolpert) recognised, in his famous dispute with alchemist Fludd that there was a big difference between Pythagorean Numerology (Mathesis) and quantitative measurement [FY]. Kingsley states [PK]:
To ignore these [non-European] connections, or try to banish the word ‘shaman’ from discussion of Greek religion...is simply to perpetuate the myth that ancient Greeks were magically sealed off from external influences.

            Wolpert even presented the ludicrous views Catholic historian Jaki who blamed belief in Reincarnation for the [supposed] failure of non-Christian civilizations to create Science as if this was true! We saw above that Pythagorean theoria involved purification of the soul and contemplation of Divine Reality​. Pythagoras famously held the doctrine of metempsychosis and the goal of Plato’s philosophia was to escape the Wheel of Transmigration [TM] by purifying the soul [GO]. Many scholars have suggested an Indian origin for such doctrines as they were absent in Egypt but such Rebirth doctrines can also arise as a natural consequence of mystical experiences. Pythagoras spent many years studying in Egypt. Obeyesekere notes that Classicists tend to ignore Plato’s Rebirth doctrines [GO], just as Hines notes the same with Plotinus’ Rebirth doctrines [BH]. Classicists also try to blame such doctrines in a racist manner on ‘Oriental degeneration’. Bettany Hughes states that most (Classics) scholars agree that the concepts of the Afterlife and Rebirth in the Eleusinian Mysteries were projections of Nature’s Rebirth with the passing seasons [BH]. Once again we find the modern Western scholars secularizing falsely the mystical basis of Greek traditions, suppressing the obvious facts that notions of Afterlife and Rebirth come from actual mystical experiences. The doctrine of Transmigration was used to explain Plato’s mystical doctrine of Recollection concerning our innate knowledge. We ‘recollect’ something we learnt in a Past Life but have since forgotten [PC]. This is not merely a speculative doctrine: such 'recollection' of memories beginning with our own seeming 'past lives' and the lives of our own deceased relatives and ancestors [as mentioned in the Rig Veda] expanding to resonances with ever-more-different entities and aspects of the universe has been experienced by modern Western LSD researchers and so-called Transpersonal Psychologists.

            Empedocle’s daimon is a reincarnating entity and Empedocle’s claimed to be immortal having purified his soul to escape the Wheel of Existence [GO]. The myth of Er, who reawakens on his own funeral pyre (obviously based on Near-Death Experiences), in Plato’s Republic bears a striking resemblance to the Shamanic journeys to the Underworld and was probably derived from the Orphic Mysteries [GO]. Plato claimed that Prophecy as practised by the oracles was the noblest art and Socrates claimed to have a semi-divine (spirit) guide when he entered his trance states [GO]. Heraclitus claimed he searched within himself to derive his philosophy [TM]. One of the few extant fragments of Heraclitus’ single work states, “The character of man is his guardian spirit” (daimon). It becomes obvious that the 'Fire' of Heraclitus' philosophy is not the plasma of the external world but the inner fire (as with the Vedic agni) or the luminous Spirit within. As with other Greek Mystery traditions, the initiates at Eleusis, fifteen miles along the Sacred Way from Athens, were famously sworn to secrecy about the actual rites and experiences [WA]. Aforementioned mathematical physicist and mystic J.H.M. Whiteman discusses the parallels between the esotericism of the Greek Mystery traditions* with the older Hindu Rg Veda and Upanishads and the later esoteric teachings hidden in the Christian Gospels in his last book Universal Theology. He notes that Clement of Alexandria famously tells us the cryptic stock answer that initiates were allowed to say if asked about the crucial stages of the mysteries [UT]:
I have fasted, I have drunk the potion. I have taken [something] from the “chest”, laid [it] in the “basket”, then taken [it] out of the basket and put [it back again] into the chest.

*As noted on the Homepage, Freke and Gandy state, in the The Jesus Mysteries, that the central teaching of the Mediterranean Mystery Religions was the 'death' of the Lower Self (ego) and its Rebirth as the Higher Self, the Oneness of the Universal Spirit which is the true God in the sense of Creator of the universe. This is equivalent to the Doctrine of the Atman-Brahman.

  Sheldrake, as with Ancient Greeks such as Pythagoras, did not let on that his central idea of (transcendental) Morphic Resonance was actually taken straight out of the Hindu Yoga Sutras’ theory of the Akasa (Space as vibrating subtle matter or ether; originating in the Upanishadic Doctrine of Elements) [AE/SP]. Sutra IV.10 states, “There is a relationship of Cause and Effect though separated by Class, Locality and Time because Memory and Impressions are the same in Form”. Sheldrake’s book was actually written in an Indian Ashram and he has written elsewhere that it was his first visit to India in the 1960s that led him to abandon his old Materialist indoctrination [NSR]. In fact, Sheldrake’s friend US mathematician Ralph Abraham admits that both he and Sheldrake were influenced by the Hindu notion of the Akasa, originally presented in the Upanishads [RA]. I pointed out that principle of transcendental vibrational resonance does not work when transposed to the naive Materialist metaphysics (so dear to Wolpert) as attempted by Sheldrake but makes perfect sense in new, deeper Nonlocal models of Quantum Reality. Such ideas were also presented by David Bohm, Wolfgang Pauli and Wolfram Schommers. This ties in with the Hindu Tantric view of the Phenomenal (Physical) Universe as manifestations of the underlying energetic vibrations of Absolute Nondual Consciousness.

      Wolpert, rather like fellow doctrinaire Materialist Francis Crick, who writes that we shouldn’t worry with the interpretation of Quantum Theory [FC], wrote of, “irreducible sets of laws or fundamental particles which must be taken as given without any cause”[LW]. But, as J.H.M. Whiteman indicated in his 1967 book and Milo Wolff had just recently shown in his 2008 book Schrödinger’s Universe: Einstein, Waves and the Origins of the Laws of Nature [MW] by rejecting the (Greek) Democritan myth and understanding the deeper, transcendental Wave Structure of Matter (WSM), we can start to explain how these ‘particle-like phenomena’ and law-like regularities of Nature arise. Newton, assuming Christian myths, had treated them as anthropomorphic God-given Laws. This is again related to Hindu Tantric views and the aforementioned Yogic doctrine of transcendental resonant causation in the Akasa.

            We saw above that Rupert Sheldrake made no mention of the Indian Vedantic origins of his ‘Morphic Resonance’ in the notion of the Akasa.** Instead Sheldrake tried to relate such Space-Time transcending resonances to Aristotle’s Formal Causation, a teleological notion which was not actually related to such transcendental Karmic notions of the persistence of memory reverberations. Transposed out of its Indian Vedantic-Tantric context, the notion of transcendental resonances does not fit in to the orthodox Western Materialist world-view (although such notions are compatible with a deeper Transcendentalist metaphysical understanding of Quantum Theory). The appeal to the European Aristotle was an attempt to appeal to such tacit Western prejudices that White Men are scientific and hence the false belief that Aristotle’s views must obviously be more scientific than those of the Indians. Such suppression of the Indian sources of their ideas and attempts to pander to Western racial prejudice is common amongst Western New Age celebrities. Rajiv Malhotra has labelled such attempts to repackage Indian ideas in Western or Western-Christian terms as the U-Turn. Rajiv’s negative view of Anglo-American New Agers was not present from the start but developed gradually as he himself had sponsored many such New Agers in their studies of Indian traditions etc. When phenomenological studies were finally accepted at the Tucson Consciousness conferences, Rajiv witnessed speakers discussing ideas, which obviously originated in Indian philosophy, but references were made only to Western names such as James, Husserl, Jung and Whitehead.
** In regard to Eurocentrism and the notion of Akasa, Western New Agers also make ludicrous claims regarding Hungarian writer Ervin Laszlo. Originally a pianist, Laszlo claims to be a pioneer in 'Systems Theory' and 'General Evolution Theory' which are actually just vague philosophical perspectives rather than scientific theories. He also claims to have been twice nominated for the Nobel Prize - the Peace Prize rather than in Science! In his pop philosophy book Science and the Akashic Field, Laszlo basically rehashes the Yoga Sutra's notion of Akashic Resonances [and makes no mention of Sheldrake's work]. Laszlo claims falsely that, in Indian Philosophy, Akasa is prior to Universal Consciousness [when in fact Akasa is the first creation out of Universal Consciousness]. Ludicrously, Laszlo claims that he is the man who revealed to the world the interconnectedness of all things and, for this great achievement, his name should be placed alongside Newton, Darwin and Einstein! In fact, Laszlo also adds Sigmund Freud to the names alongside which his should be placed demonstrating Laszlo's inability to distinguish reals achievements from charlatanism! Yet New Age celebrity friends have hyped-up this crude work of pop philosophy as if it is some revolutionary masterpiece!

            I have mentioned how the Wilber-worshipping Anglo-Americans suppressed publicity for my O/OM back in 1999-2000 as Wilber had just received large donations from the UFO-CEO Joe Firmage after the latter had to step down as CEO of USWeb. Wilber’s false, tacitly dualist, interpretation of the relationship between Science and Mysticism had led him to claims that synthesis was impossible and we would never find any ‘link’ between the two realms [falsehoods undermined by my O/OM with the RAS-brainwave correlation linking the two realms and my broader synthesis]. Bauwens mentions that even some Wilber critics became admirers after Wilber got the money to set up his own Institute [MB]. I recall that Bengali- American Amit Goswami had exposed Wilber’s tacit dualism in a monograph he had written for Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) around 1998 (Goswami’s spell at IONS had actually been funded by Rajiv Malhotra). But after Wilber got the Firmage money, Goswami was singing Wilber’s praises in the IONS magazine. In BBAB, I show that Wilber has done nothing that any serious, impartial adjudicator would judge worthy of being labelled the ‘Einstein of Consciousness’. In his early books, Wilber seems to have stuck to promoting the orthodox Indian Advaita Vedanta emphasizing the famous 4-state AUM model of the states of consciousness from the Mandukya Upanisad. It seems that when Wilber attempted to be original with his Pre/Trans Fallacy and ‘Height Psychology’ (as opposed to traditional ‘Depth Psychology) and with his supposedly profound ‘Quadrant model’, rather than stick to Advaita Vedanta, he got everything confused. My work demonstrates what others have suspected, that Wilber’s Pre/Trans Fallacy is itself a fallacy. Even Wilber’s own New Age admirer Christian de Quincey has exposed the absurd inconsistencies in Wilber’s much-hyped Quadrant model (actually just a ‘mandala’) [CdQ]. Like myself, de Quincey also compares Wilber’s ever-changing (so-called) models to the epicycles of Ptolemy, added on to salvage a basically flawed framework resulting in supposedly over 2,000 'consciousness variables'! However, I think it is a bit unfair to Ptolemy to have Wilber likened to him. Unlike Wilber’s constant tinkering with absurd ‘models’ which are of no real scientific value (in stark contrast to my RAS-brainwave correlation), the epicyclic astronomical model of the great Claudius Ptolemy did work reasonably well. Copernicus did not actually eliminate epicycles in his heliocentric model, he only reduced the number required!

*Wood also came out with the absurd claim that Chandragupta Maurya got the idea of creating a vast empire from Alexander! The White Supremacist distortion behind this is clear in that Alexander simply took over the pre-existing vast empire of the  decadent Persians (including the Indus territories which Chandragupta soon reclaimed from the Macedonians [under the great General Seleucus Nikator - as well as forcing them to cede Bactria (Afghanistan)]. The Persian Empire had held the Indus for 200 years and Chandragupta's classic imperial motifs, the rock edicts, were copied from the Persian emperors. Ancient historians recorded that Alexander's troops refused to enter [non-Persian] India proper as they faced certain defeat at the hands of the vast Indian forces awaiting them, led by Chandragupta's battle-hardened Army of Maghada. Unlike, the Persians,  the local Punjabi chieftain Porus had given the Macedonians a hard fight {and Alexander reinstated Porus as King]. It was obvious that Al stood no chance against the allied Indian armies awaiting him. However, according to Wood, the 'Greeks' were 'homesick' and, according to Wood's fantasy image of Al, he might have gone on to conquer China!

**In December 2016 the Daily Mail (the right-wing tabloid which, in the 1930s, supported Hitler and the British Fascist Oswald Moseley) reported on the removal of a plaque at Queen Mary University, London commemorating the visit of Belgian King Leopold II notorious for the genocide of around 10 million Africans in Congo along with barbaric mutilations of hands on the rubber plantations. This followed student protest. Many of the comments from the 'Middle England' Mail readers, disparaging the students as 'snowflakes' [i.e. youngsters brainwashed by Political Correctness into taking offence at the slightest hint of offence] or stating that 'such things were normal back then' [when in fact Leopold's atrocities had been denounced by his contemporaries] demonstrated my point about the Nazis. Other, better educated and more Liberal, commenters responded pointing out that Britain would never allow plaques in honour of Hitler!

Notes

  N1 In 1998 a Bengali Professor of Physics in the USA who had joined the New Age movement did not respond to me even though people who knew him emailed me saying that he would be excited by my 1999 book [in fact I had already sent him a synopsis of O/OM in 1997 getting no response]. A non-Indian Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill who is a fan of my work suggested that I also forward my first draft of Chapter 1 of BBAB to a well-known Indian Professor of Indian Philosophy and Hinduism in McGill. Not surprisingly, the Indian did not respond even though my work impacted directly upon his specialty and this non-scientist Sanskritist, like the Bengali Physics professor had received sponsorship from my acquaintance Rajiv Malhotra’s Infinity Foundation.

N2 Crasta also writes Impressing the Whites that white feminists are amongst the worst when it comes to demonizing non-whites. They encourage their brown sisters to become rich and famous by writing atrocity literature attacking non-white men as depraved misogynists. There is much truth in this given the role of the famous works of American writer Katharine Mayo, sponsored by British Intelligence to write Mother India (1927), claiming that the treatment of women in India negated India’s claims for independence! She did the same with a book on the Philippines. No mention was made by Mayo of the genocidal parasitisation of India by the British which killed tens of millions by starvation and kept 90% of the population on the edge of starvation. Crasta adds that these White-endorsed Indian celebrities are ‘coconuts’, white on the inside, brown outside. These people become honorary ‘whites’ and look down on the darkies. Any Indian writer who deviates from bashing Hindu (and Muslim) society and dares to criticize the white masters will never make it into the literary circles of London and New York.

N3 The Ramakrishna Mission in Calcutta had my 1999 book O/OM reviewed by an Indian physicist. Although sympathetic, this reviewer ended his review with the absurd comment that he did not think that Einstein would have agreed with the author. The absurdity of this statement was that I had shown that Einstein was wrong in regard to Physicalism and Determinism etc. Einstein claimed that his God was the God of Spinoza but, in his debates with Tagore, it was clear that Einstein did not stick with Spinoza’s (non-Transcendental) Panpsychism. It is all the more ironic in that my book was confirming the validity of the Brahmanic-Tantric metaphysics espoused by Ramakrishna himself but their reviewer chose to give the final word to a deceased White man whose has been granted a false ‘godlike’ authority in popular Western culture even though he was actually quite immature in regard to metaphysics as demonstrated by his criticism of the transcendental implications of Quantum Theory. Journalists and TV presenters in the Western media who deify Einstein have next to no knowledge or understanding of the metaphysical thought of Mach, Schrödinger, Eddington, Pauli, and Heisenberg which is far more profound than that of Einstein as I stress in BBAB. As Eddington stressed Einstein’s Space-Time Continuum is only a fictional geometrical construct that humans project onto Nature but many physicists and laymen (continuing the Western tradition of reifying abstractions – Whitehead’s Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness) imagine it to be real. As I stress in Ch.10 of BBAB, Geometries are idealized human constructs, not ontological Reality, and thus Quantum Theory, dealing with actual phenomenal manifestations, is of far greater ontological significance than the highly abstract and geometrical GTR of Einstein.

N4 The common association of Voodoo dolls with the African-slave descendants of Haiti itself reflects European demonization of Non-Europeans. Although West Africans may have had similar practises such dolls were in fact used in medieval European folk magic.

N5 In fact, as discussed below, the White Supremacist Aryan racial-superiority myths had nothing to do with true Hinduism but were fantasies concocted by European Indologists including German-born Max Muller. Hitler himself wrote in Mein Kampf of his admiration for the British Empire and Nazi plans for the conquest and re-organization of Slavic lands was modelled on the British de-industrialization and plantationization-enslavement of the Indian economy as a source of raw materials for Britain. The Nazis even prepared for mass famines killing millions of Slavs paralleling British Rule in India [MM]. Pollock’s attempt to blame Hinduism for Nazism also suppresses the fact that Zionists (anti-assimilation Nationalistic Ashkenazi Jews – these Yiddish-speaking Jews were actually of non-Semitic, Central Asian Hunnic origins [SS]) were supportive of Nazi Jew-hatred as it furthered their Separatist, Zionist colonization of Palestine aspirations. The Zionists were the only party allowed to co-exist with the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Zionists even acted to prevent Jewish children being rescued to the UK and USA as this meant that such Jews were not settling in Palestine [LB]. Pollock also suppresses the racist, anti-Humanist, tribal hate ideology presented by the Jewish Talmud and prevalent in Orthodox Hassidic Judaism [IS]. In fact, scholars have pointed out that Fascism (including Nazism) was closely linked to the Catholic Church as was clearly seen in Catholic Spain, Italy and Croatia. Hitler was born in Catholic Australia and the early Nazis were prominent in Catholic Bavaria.

N6 In contrast to elitist mystical philosophers, Rorty glorified novelist Charles Dickens as a great Liberal and Social Reformer. Here again Rorty misled the reader. Like many Western ‘Liberals’, Dickens was only a Liberal at home with his own people. After the 1857 revolt in India, Dickens wrote that he wished that he were commander-in-chief in India so that he would be able to do “my utmost to exterminate the [Indian] race...” (See N. Robins’ The Corporation that Changed the World, Pluto Press, 2006). Dickens also applauded the barbaric execution of Hindu (meaning Indian) prisoners-of-war by so-called cannonading (placing them directly in front of the cannon muzzle before firing). Dickens own writings reveal him to be a racist who denigrated various races and who opposed the Abolition of Slavery campaign of Wilberforce and criticized Harriet Beecher Stowe for her stirring up conflict aimed at overthrowing the White Race (See Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg’s web article “Dickens and Racism” on www.estherledergberg.com).

N7 In Calcutta, where many of my relatives live, Biharis were looked down upon as they were predominantly poor refugees from poverty-stricken rural Bihar who pulled human-rickshaws. Most Indians who ended up in Trinidad were indentured-labourers (‘coolies’) – subjected to a form of semi-slavery by the British after the supposed British Abolition of Slavery (the British still kidnapped Pacific Islanders to work as slaves in Australia long after the supposed ‘Abolition’). The British today boast of being the country that abolished the Atlantic Slave Trade. Critics point out that other European countries abolished slavery before Britain and, given the fact that the British dominated the Atlantic Slave Trade (and possessed the most powerful navy), it would not have made sense for any other country to have done so!

N8 Schopenhauer described his rival at Berlin University G.W.F. Hegel correctly as a ‘scribbler of rubbish’ and ‘corrupter of minds’ [WH]. The Marxian Atheist Materialists who are so enthralled by the pseudo-profound claptrap concocted by Hegel with his absurd Apotheosis of History etc. remain either ignorant of or suppress the fact that Hegel’s though was steeped in occultist Mysticism, especially Christian Kabbalism with its End-of the-World apocalyptic fantasies (SeeMagee’s Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition). Hegel was also involved in the White Supremacist Aryanism fabrications of Ancient History with his historical fantasies that the founders of all the great all the great Ancient Civilizations (India, Egypt, Greece, Rome) were Northern European Germanic ‘Aryans’[RS].

N9 The 20th Century shift in Physics from supposedly indestructible atoms to Matter and Forces as localized phenomenal manifestations of underlying nonlocal energy fields has resulted in (insentient) energy being assumed as the Primary Substance hence the subtle shift from Materialism to Physicalism. Physicalism still precludes Consciousness as in the old Galilean Ontology but with the Space-Time-transcending Nonlocal aspects of Quantum Theory, makes more amenable the Transcendental phenomena experienced in mystical states of consciousness.

N10 The British boast repeatedly that they (the British) defeated the Germans in the 1939-45 war (I do not accept the Eurocentric designations of the 1914-18 war fought primarily in Europe as a ‘World War’). But 80% of German divisions were actually destroyed by the USSR and the USA did by far the most of the fighting against the Japanese as well as on the Western European front. Many US leaders, military and civilian viewed the British (the ‘Red Empire’ against whom the USA had planned for war in the 1920s), especially the reactionary Churchill, as only seeking to defend their own Empire and keeping non-Europeans in Britain’s Empire enslaved. Contrary to self-promoting myths in his autobiography peddled by his hagiographers, that Churchill campaigned against Nazism in the 1930s, White Supremacist Churchill actually spent the 1930s campaigning against granting independence to India (fearing that Britons would starve if India could no longer be exploited to serve Britain’s needs). He only came to oppose the Nazis when he feared that they threatened the British Empire. The right-wing British tabloid Daily Mailnewspaper continues to peddle such myths about Churchill’s supposed greatness whilst failing to mention that throughout the 1930s the Daily Mail was an ardent supporter of Hitler, Mussolini and Oswald Moseley! The Brits also boast that the Empire, whom the Brits dragged into the war without consultation, covered 1/5 of the earth’s land surface. But when talking of the 1939-45 war the talk suddenly shifts to ‘tiny little Britain’ standing alone!

N11 Amusingly in November 2008, the BBC presented Fry as the quintessential Englishman in his series Stephen Fry in America. Fry is openly homosexual, spouting double entendres about sodomy on episodes of QI in late 2008. This resembles the James Bond films with Scottish and Irish actors playing the supposedly upper class English spy bedding all the women when in fact the most famous English Cold War spies were posh private school and Cambridge-educated homosexuals like Fry. Also unlike fictional Bond, these actual upper class Brit spooks served Communist Russia. On his TV tour of all 50 states of the USA, the sceptical Fry visited the TM headquarters in Fairfield, Iowa and listened to Fred Travis (whose EEG study-based Junction Point model of the Pure Consciousness as the background state of the cortex supports my brainstem brainwave correlation) talk about EEG slow wave coherence etc . Fry focused on the silly ‘yogic flying’ mattress hopping ‘levitation’ of the TM people which of course is ludicrous (the ‘bathwater’). Soon afterwards at the Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico, Fry drooled with delight as the Director spoke ludicrous ‘Physics-babble” about creating ‘self-aware materials’. Ironically the ‘smart arse’ and ‘clever dick’ Fry was condescending toward some Western desert state cowboy types for never having heard of Phenomenology. Fry remained oblivious of the irony in that, if one had real understanding of Husserlian Phenomenology’s central notion of Intentionality – with its unities of noesis and noema (related to Subject/Object duality), one would laugh at preposterous claims of creating ‘self-aware materials’. Solid materials cannot mutually superimpose in the manner of the brainwaves constituting Pure Consciousness (as subjective moments) with brainwaves incorporating objective content or self-representational information allowing for reflective, self-awareness.

              In 2011 I watched a repeat episode of the BBC ‘highbrow’ quiz-show QI (Quite Interesting) Fry. Fry asked a question about which man (singular) had prevented the death of about 1 billion people. The ‘correct answer’ was the astonishingly naive and tacitly racist assertion that American Norman Borlaug’s introduction of ‘Green Revolution’ agricultural techniques into India in the 1960s had prevented the death of about one billion people. Fry was presumably reading an autocue based on behind-the-scenes research. But this demonstrates that, still today, the British are peddling the myth of ‘Timeless Hunger’ from which the British claimed cynically that they had rescued India. We have seen above that famine and starvation in India was largely the consequence of British bloodsucking colonialism not due to shortage of food. Native Indian rulers, both Hindu and Muslim, acted to prevent famines from developing. Rather the British stole the food right out of the mouths of the poorest Indians. Thus there were over 30 famines in British-occupied India in the first 120 years of British Rule up to 1877 compared to just 17 in the whole of India in the previous 2,000 years. Even without the Green Revolution, independent India would have imported food if there were serious shortages rather than follow the racist and genocidal ‘Let them Starve’ and Buchenwald-like Death Camp policies of the British Raj and the denial of food aid policies of Churchill. The QI thesis that a billion Indians would have died without Borlaug shows the tacit racism of assuming that hundreds of millions of Indians were merely passive and helpless spectators totally dependent upon the White hero figure coming to save them. In fact, it was Food and Agriculture Minister C. Subramanian, appointed by PM Lal Bahadur Shastri, who sought ought Borlaug and his high-yield Mexican dwarf wheat varieties (See Gurcharan Das, India Unbound, Anchor Books, 2000). This follows the archetypal pattern of British historiography! The BBC did not respond to my complaint about this racist nonsense even though I quoted well-sourced facts.

N12 Interestingly Finkelstein lists Stephen Katz, the leading anti-Perennialist scholar of Mysticism/Comparative Religion (Head of Jewish Studies at Harvard), as a prominent member of the Holocaust Industry. Finkelstein notes that in presenting the Nazi genocide of Jews as unprecedented and unique, simultaneously downplaying the genocide of other peoples throughout history, the Holocaust Industry perpetuates the myth of the Jews as God’s Chosen People [this is of course a common belief of all primitive tribes]. Finkelstein also showed that, whereas Swiss banks were demonized by Zionists in regard to treatment of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust [leading to a $1 billion 'shakedown' - more than was actually owed], in reality American banks and Jewish-owned banks in British-mandate Palestine had actually behaved in a worse manner to dispossessed Jewish families than Swiss Banks but, of course, Zionists will not expose such truths about the misbehaviour of fellow Zionists or banks in the USA [whose imperial power has been exploited by the 'Israel Lobby' to serve the Zionist cause]!

N13 The Western support for Zionism is itself a product of the White Supremacism that permeates Western thought. Mahatma Gandhi denounced Zionism as a Crime Against Humanity. In essence, the White Europeans forced the natives of Palestine (the Palestinians unlike the Hunnic Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe were the true descendants of the Biblical Judaeans as Ben Gurion knew [SS]) to pay the price for historical European persecution of the Jews including the crimes of the Nazi Europeans. Of the 33 countries that voted in favour of the Partition of Palestine, nearly all were White European states including Stalin’s USSR (many Zionists were pro-Stalin although the Likud Party of Shamir and Netanyahu was modelled on Mussolini’s Fascists). Most Non-European states did not have the vote as they were still colonized. There were also tiny US client states such as the Solomon Islands and US client states like Cuba which the US armtwisted to fix the UN vote as usual. Britain abstained (recognizing its own historical guilt in the regard to the Balfour Declaration and its brutal suppression of the 1936 Palestinian Uprising) although in winter 1947 US President Truman blackmailed Britain with the threat of withholding Marshall Aid. This was a winter when seas froze and Britons would have starved had the US stopped sending aid [note the British allowed tens of millions of non-White Indian subjects to starve to death but not White Britons]. Truman forced the British occupiers of Palestine to allow more Zionists from Europe to enter Palestine in order to woo the Jewish vote in the 1948 US Election. Why were these Hunnic Eastern Europeans (who converted to Judaism) not given European territory as a supposed ‘Jewish Homeland’?

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[BBC4] Racism A History (2007) Television Series, BBC 4 {Unlike    other documentaries shown on this digital-only channel, this (revealing though    Afrocentric) series was not made accessible to the wider British public on BBC2}

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