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7 Dec

A recent post on the TL brought to mind a curious phenomenon that seems to be one of the factors that draw people into certain bābāisms: the production of apports. This caught my attention early on because I noticed that several votaries claimed to have received bābāistic apports

I have heard of three unrelated bābājī-s (one of them more of a low-profile vaiṣṇava ``magician'') producing apports. Shortly thereafter I first saw one such apport, I saw demo by a vaṅgīya magician Sarkar on TV where he produced an apport explicitly as a magic trick. When I

pointed this to the votary and he gradually de-bābāized. I subsequently had the occasion to watch Sarkar live on stage producing various apports as part of his magic show. For at least one public bābājī the introduction of video cameras allowed the capture of the whole palming

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5 Dec

Any non-H, professing to be a heathen, who aligns with any of any of the ekarAkShasonnmAda-s or their secular mutations should be seen as an enemy, much as the unmatta-s themselves. No 2 ways about this.

As I have always held, H organizations should study navyonmAda closely before putting out a helping hand to any non-H claiming to be a heathen, especially from the Anglosphere. There is good chance they are not heathens but navyonmatta-s masquerading as such.

A characteristic feature of navyonmAda, like many of the earlier counterreligions, is to fish around among those in the social fringes to use as cannon fodder for their ultimate aim of social demolition. In the Occident this might include various kinds of people who are

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3 Dec

I came across some rather interesting work by a certain zoologist Müller from Basel who did meticulous experiments with homing in dogs that to my knowledge have never been repeated. He made several interesting observations: 1. Based on their behavior he classified the dogs into

3 ranks that in principle might have corresponded to their place in the ancestral wolf-pack state. Dominant curs αs; middle ranked βs and low-ranked submissive ωs. He found that only αs and high βs were able to home successfully.This is keeping with earlier observations with army

dogs that only some of them home. It suggests that keeping home range is important for αs. ωs tended to find street dog companions if available or human dwellings. 2. He found that the homers went through an initial phase of orientation at the unknown release site. Once that was

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3 Dec

Many birds (probably most) possess some homing ability. Many crocodiles (general sense) also possess strong homing ability over 100s of kilometers in several cases. In the case of some crocodiles there is a bit of a paradox. The saltwater crocs have spread from all the way from

India to Australia via sea; yet, they home over long distances. However, ironically both depend on the same ability of efficient navigation at sea and by rivers using favorable water currents to their advantage. When the current is favorable they use it to drive their travel at

rates of up to 20km per day over several days. One croc homed by covering 411 km in 20 days. In birds a major aspect of the homing capacity appears to be magnetic sense. But when the current is not favorable they dive down and wait or come a shore if close to a bank/shore.

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29 Nov

There was discussion on cannabis legalization where 1 side felt it was safer than smoking tobacco& the other it was triggering mental illness& dangerous behavior. Just posting some stuff which is mostly common knowledge but apparently those in that argument did not seem to know

Just parking that bAlabodhana here in case some1 else is interested. 1st for some anatomical background: There is this part of the mammalian brain shown in red in the below pic where much of the action that concerns us happens. It's called the striatum. There is a key signaling

pathway that occurs in the neurons in that structure mediated by a neurotransmitter called dopamine shown below. It is type of compound called catecholamine (if you recall you school chem you will see those groups). It signals between neurons by bind a receptor which is on the

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28 Nov

The growing Cases of people of European/West Asian ancestry claiming to be First Americans or of African descent. This seems to illustrate 1 of the contradictions of liberal (mostly North American) identity crisis. The simultaneous insistence & denial of the centrality of race

It laterally impinges on an oft discussed (heatedly) modern identity problem in the Hindu world too -- i.e. that of varNa by birth vs temperament. In our opinion (as mentioned before) it is good to not go the whole hog along either branch of the decision tree but accept a bit of

a superposition. The genetics of tribes, lineages etc keep changing with admixture -- a reality of human existence -- hence, hanging your identity purely on a "mine is bigger" attitude is not the best thing. On the other hand just genetics does not correlate strictly with the

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