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.
INCLUDING
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 Britain2). 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.
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.
The deeper WSM understanding, doing away with the manmade paradoxes of
QM, also accords with the general view of Eastern Philosophy that the
regularities of Nature arise from its intrinsic self-organizing
character. This contrasts with Western Greco-Christian myths of
immutable Logos (anthropomorphic Reason) underlying
Nature and Laws decreed by a sovereign man-god which inanimate, material
Nature must obey. At the beginning of his TV programme Enemies of Reason,
Richard Dawkins names David Hume as a praiseworthy philosopher of the
Enlightenment. In fact Hume wrote that the scientific belief in a
rational universe is primitive superstition holding that the
universe is a cosmic analog of the human mind (emphasis mine) [RM]. I
pointed out in my critique of Wolpert’s simplistic views that most of
the basic concepts of Physics were themselves derived from animistic
projection of human feelings onto Nature (e.g. force, work, energy,
acceleration, heat, body) just like the primitive mythologies which
scientific orthodoxy mocks. The scientific concept of ‘energy’ was
partly inspired by the Romantic reaction to Mechanistic views, with the
references to our ‘inner energies’ as in Blake’s statement that 'energy
is sheer delight' [O/OM]. Similarly, the notion of Laws of Nature is
based on primitive anthropomorphism.
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!
We saw above that some Afro-Americans labelled Martin Bernal the 'Academic Elvis'. I would label prolific New Age pop philosophy writer Ken Wilber as such the 'New Age Elvis'. He has been hyped-up in certain Anglo-American New Age circles as the ‘Einstein of Consciousness’. Even his old-friend turned critic Michel Bauwens writes in his largely critical web essay “The Cult of Ken Wilber” that Wilber has produced a ‘masterly synthesis of Hindu-Buddhist Nondualism’[MB]. This is utter nonsense. Note how Bauwens’ statement makes it appear that thousands of years of Indian pioneering investigations into Consciousness are now the property of this hyped-up White Man. In 2000, leading US scholars of Hinduism and Buddhism discussed Wilber in the Infinity Foundation’s YogaPsychology web forum and the consensus was that his so-called ‘Integral Psychology’ was essentially copied from the ‘Integral Yoga’ of Aurobindo Ghose . Bauwens tells us that Wilber refers to the respected Aurobindo-inspired California Institute of Integral Studies (and also the respected Buddhist Naropa Institute) as a ‘cesspool’ [MB]).
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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