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The Faucian Bargain

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So,we have gone from the Faustian Bargain(the pact with the devil)  to the Faucian bargain!The Faucian bargain is that, in order to participate in society,we accept the risk of taking a vaccine whose cost/benefit analysis is nowhere near as clear-cut as the authorities would have us believe.So we see Faust to Fauci- the German/Italian connection once again lol.We know where that led in the not too distant past?!

I had a dream the other night in which the entire university curriculum was being transformed into Fauci-ism.Intriguing?!Fauci-ism implies a sort of transhumanism where profit and manipulated social consensus take over completely-at the expense of u know who. So we have gone from Aristotle (logic and Rationality) to robotic  and manipulated data-crunching! And there is the Greco-Roman connection as well.Ask the apostles of Jesus a.s. what that was like?!

As opposed to Fauci.it must be stated that Aristotle ,not one of my favourite personalities lol,was concerned about ethics and wrote a famous book called “The Nichomachean Ethics”.We see very little of that concern in Fauci’s version of Epistemology.What we do see is blind ambition,profits and self-justifications galore.So much for “The Angels of our Better Nature” Mr. Steven Pinker,another intellectual I abhor-arguing that we have gotten better over time as a human race.Only a cruncher of data-a Fauci acolyte in another domain- could come to such a blatanly dubious conclusion.Now we have the proof lol. Aristotle was more ethical than Fauci! Case closed!

Btw, Fauci,who is now the saviour for many people, was the one who promoted ,encouraged and financed the production of this chimeric,GMO virus that is ravaging the world! Talk about the fox in the chicken coop?! And he doesn’t seem to bat an eye about the destruction he has launched on the planet.There are only two diagnoses possible here-Psychopath(i.e. no conscience) or Aspergers(no clue!).I actually believe the latter although a very good case can be made for the former- as does RFKjr in his recent book-“The Real Anthony Fauci”

So there we are.Not a “Brave New World” as the New-Agers would have us believe! But rather a “Cowardly, Uncompassionate, Manipulated New World”  . Got to get back to my latest project-developing and expressing positivity lol. Stay tuned!

 

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Global Warming-An Alternative Analysis:Response to the Echo-chamber of Consensus.

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Climate is a very complex matter. There are many interacting factors that affect it. From solar energy to sunspots to cosmic rays to ocean currents to El Nino wind effects to the Atlantic Gulf Stream currents to volcanic activity…the list goes on and on. So limiting our concern to one factor like carbon emissions is naive at best and catastrophic at worse-since we may well be missing the boat entirely! There are scientists who actually believe we are close to a cooling phase and others that believe that the correlation with CO2 emissions is due to causation in the other direction i.e. it is the warming that is causing the increased CO2 rather than the opposite. So anyone who says this a a simple straightforward matter is lying to you! What else is new?!

In January 2006 Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel and ruthless general had a stroke.He was misdiagnosed by his Israeli doctors who treated him for a thrombotic stroke instead of the hemorrhagic stroke which he had had.The anticoagulants used then had a catastrophic effect,worsening the hemorrhage, and he remained in a coma on life-support until he finally died several years later.Diagnosis matters! And I am concerned that the current diagnosis around the phenomenon of Global Warming may well be wrong!

Now there should be no doubt about what is occurring .The climate IS warming! We can see the effects of this all around us.Wildfires,floods,increasing weather events all around the world! That is not the issue! The issue is what is causing this?! Now the current consensus of climate scientists is that the cause is the carbon footprint or the greenhouse effect.And these are caused by humans through burning of fossil fuels .They call that “anthropogenic” global warming.But is that not, once again, an expression of “hubris”. Man is so powerful that he can change the climate?! Not unlike the idea”man is so powerful he can get rid of the Covid virus through a vaccine.Or better still “man is so powerful,he can make Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya into democracies” lol

Now don’t get me wrong.I am fully aware of how destructive and ignorant man can be! He is certainly in the process of ruining our Environment.He has succeeded in contaminating our water supply,our food and our air.So much so that we now have epidemics of Cancer and Alzheimers and autism and many other diseases! But changing our climate?! Not so sure about that one! Has man succeeded in stopping hurricanes or floods or earthquakes?! I don’t think so ! So how come he is able to affect climate in such a dramatic way.

Now,if we start with simple observation-the place I, personally ,like to start with,we will notice that every day the temperature varies up to fifteen degrees Celsius between the night and the day.If we shift to seasonable variation ,in Canada for example,the temperature can vary more than 60 degrees Celsius(minus 30 in winter to plus 30 in summer). No one doubts, not even the most consensus bound climatologists, that this is due to the sun-more specifically the position of the Earth relative to the sun! No-one! So why would we not start with the sun if we are looking at changes in the range of 1-2 degrees Celsius.And there are a few scientists like Henrik Svensmark of Denmark and Nir Shaviv of Israel amongst others who are seriously questioning the Greenhouse Gas theory and linking the change to solar radiation and cosmic rays.And btw there are almost always a few “geniuses” out there who don’t buy into the consenus -like Luc  Montaigne and Didier Raoult and Chris Martenson on the Covid pandemic!

Now,if we look back over the history of the planet Earth,this is not the first time it has been so warm.115,000 years ago, during the time of the Neanderthals, there was no ice on this planet.More recently during the Roman Warming period and the Medieval Warming period the climate was warmer than it is now.I haven’t heard about the Neanderthals or the Romans and the Medieval Christians driving SUVs  or firing up their coal-burning furnaces lol.And I doubt that the Roman chariots were producing enough methane to affect the climate! So how did that warming happen?!In fact, the Earth’s climate has been changing since the beginning of its history-from Ice Cold to Tropical hot!

Even more recently, we have some naturally occurring experiments.For example when economic activity ground to a halt during the first phase of the Covid  pandemic,the skies cleared around the world and carbon emissions were seriously reduced! According to the Carbon Imprint theory that should have cooled the Earth and stopped the warming! But. actually, the planet continued to warm in fact the rate of warming accelerated.When forest fires occur(what could possibly produce more carbon in the atmosphere than that!) one would expect, according to the Greenhouse Effect Theory, global warming to increase.But in fact there are many reports of the temperature cooling down !

At first glance .all of this evidence would suggest that there is a “carbon filtering effect” rather then a carbon warming effect! If that is the case(for now this remains a hypothesis) then what all the International Bodies are trying to do i.e. limit carbon emissions,would be making things worse! Like the afore-mentioned error in the treatment of Ariel Sharon,this would be catastrophic-not only  for one man-but for all of us! It is possible that we NEED the carbon or something equivalent to filter out the sun’s rays.Then again,since this solar energy is not really in our control(tell that to Elon Musk and Bill Gates lol) it is possible that God will relent from this test and start the cooling process.And as we say in Islam “Allah Hu Alim”(Only God knows for sure!)

Addendum! The Confirmation of my hypotheses! https://electroverse.net/the-ipccs-latest-climate-report-is-antiscience-and-antihuman-reject-it/

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Lamentations of an Aspiring Spiritual Teacher

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Towards the end of his life, Freud made the following statement concerning his discovery of psychoanalysis; “I believe I have discovered the third type of human activity that is both necessary and doomed to failure.The other two being raising children and governing nations” Lol. Well I may have uncovered the fourth- Being a spiritual teacher!

Now, classically, the métier of spiritual teacher was considerably simpler.The teacher spoke and instructed and the murid(student) listened and obeyed.” Listen and obey” That is the instruction both in the Quran and in most Sufi tariqats.But somehow things have changed.That model seems to be outdated.It is still being attempted in many spiritual circles but I myself and many others in modern times have found it unworkable.For example,when we discover the teacher has made a mistake,sometimes a serious one,do we just keep quiet?! Or, even worse, do we deny that it occurred as many murids do? What do we do about it? Unfortunately denial is a very commonplace reaction.

I had a very good friend whose teacher was doing wrong things( many actually haram) on many levels.The evidence was growing by the year and the documentation became overwhelming.But he wouldn’t leave! It got so bad,I eventually had to terminate the friendship as the level of “falsehood” had become unsustainable.This is not uncommon btw!The loyalty to corrupt spiritual teachers is unbelievable at times.and the justifications are as clever as they are disingenuous.

I would like to backtrack a moment to my personal experience here.I say often and I believe it that I would have almost no understanding of life and spirituality if it were not for some extraordinary beings I have met along the route.These extraordinary beings include my first Sufi teacher-Pir Vilayat Khan-my first Tibetan Buddhist teacher,Geshe Lama Gajan, my fist Muslim teacher Sheikh Muhammad Jumal, Sheikh Bawa Muhayideen, Sheikh Nazim al Qubrusi,S heikh Nuh and my current teacher Sheikh Abu Qassim of Erdeyf,Tunisia and many others along the way.I learnt so much more from these people than from my miserable 12 years of University education lol! I would be nowhere without them.

And yet….they were all imperfect.And it usually didn’t take me long to detect their faults and their limitations.However,we were absolutely forbidden, by context,to raise these issues.”Our teachers are perfect.We need to idealize them and obey them” That was the Gestalt of it. No ‘ifs’,’ and’s and ‘buts’ lol.

Eventually,I had to break away from this Absolutist approach to spiritual development.It was not an easy decision.Most of my Sufi colleagues would consider my position as heretical.But my entire path seemed to be leading me in that direction-developing a more comprehensive,all-inclusive model.My heart led me there and my Istikharas confirmed it over and over again.Little did I expect what happened next?!

Once I took on this new role ,I was confronted quickly with a dilemma that I had not expected.The opposition forces grew and grew.Like our blessed Prophet saws I confronted the opposition-as he sal  confronted the ways of the Qurayshi ancestprs!I began to regret the loss of the “Listen and obey plus idealization” approach! So much easier.Excludes all opposition by diktat.But it was not to be.  These were new types of ancestors however- the ancestors of the modern world! And two of these “modern ancestral opponents” stood out from the crowd.One was “transference” (courtesy the psychoanalysts) and one was social-conditioning( social brain-washing if you wish). Let us explore these two in a little more detail.

1-Tranference: Transference was a deep secret in the human unconscious that Freud and his fellow analysts discovered by doing therapy with psychologically troubled people.What they found ,to their surprise initially, was that no matter how neutral and relatively silent they were,the patient eventually reproduced their parental relationships in the consulting room.Then it became the analysts job to “interpret the transference” and that would ultimately be the most important tool for healing.Until they came across the borderlines but that is another story Lol.

As a spiritual teacher,one comes across the very same phenomenon,in a different context.The teacher is trying to transmit knowledge and understanding and practices and even love only to come across reactiveness and obstinacy and stonewalling! “What is he is thinking?! I am trying my best to transmit goodness and life  and I am getting “flack” instead?!” What is happening?” he asks And the answer is usually transference!

The transference can take several forms.If we are talking about a male teacher it will often involve a father transference.”My father is critical,so you are critical.My father is explosive so you are explosive.My father puts me down so you,the spiritual teachers are putting me down” The themes are endless.Occasionally a gender shift may be operative.For example if the mother was domineering and harsh or the micro-managing type, the transference can be a maternal one.

The other possibility, in the domain of the unconscious, comes from the school of “object relations” in psychoanalysis.They clearly identified the process of identification or parental internalization(the inner parental imago). So, in that case, the murid,instead of reacting to the parent becomes the parent.This often happens in marriage,unfortunately.But it can also happen within a teacher/student relationship!

In a classical Sheikh/Murid relationship this phenomenon is either hidden or short-circuited but in the newer model I am presenting it needs to be addressed.This makes the work a lot more difficult but on the other hand more complete and more satisfying.In other words, with this approach we are doing psychotherapy at the same time as spiritual work.Very satisfying for someone who has been advocating the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual approach(i.e a complete approach to human development) for decades!

2_ Social Conditioning: I realized quite quickly that there was another adversary in this process that was at least as formidable ,if not more so,than the transference.And that is social conditioning- the way we have been trained by our parents ,the society around us, and most notably our schools, to think.And that thinking involves at least three elements- Rationnality/Logic; Democratic values(what I call the Democratic Illusions); and Secularism. I am convinced there is much more to this story but let us start with those three;

a) Rationnality/Logic: From an early age, and certainly as soon as we start our formal education, we are trained to be Reasonable and Logical. I only really became aware of this bias when I did an EST training in San Francisco in the 70’s and the trainer at the front began unpacking “the stages of spiritual development“Reasonableness is the lowest level of spiritual development” he stated  i.e. just one notch above animality lol.And yet all around us we can see this emphasis-not only in our schools but in our businesses which are constantly calculating their self-interest and in our governments that are always looking at “the data”. You see gathering of the data and then analyzing it or “crunching it” as they say is one of the most basic aspects of our social processes and our decision -making .

So the Greek Philosophers and particularly Aristotle have found their way into our thinking-actually into our unconscious! And this internalization raises its hoary head as soon as you begin trying to teach people.One of the first manifestations of this is “the contradiction detectors”.They are on all the time in hyperactive,hypersensitive mode!Remember Aristotle taught us that A could not be not-A. Unfortunately it often is lol. “But teacher, you said this yesterday and now you are saying that.How could that be?! It’s a contradiction!” Yes,we are all playing  “gotcha”CNN games with each other and with our teachers.

For the Muslims amongst you and even the sincere Christians ,try to find those kind of interactions amongst the disciples of Mohammad saws or Jesus a.s. or Moses.I have been unable.Take note that we are not talking abort Muslim scholars or Talmudic traditions or Christian theologians.They are all infected with the Aristotelian virus and its variants lol.We are talking about original sources.I have not been able ,in our Islamic tradition, to find one interaction and there were many ,many of those reported,of one of the Sahhabbis saying to the Prophet saws”You said this,but the Quran said that.How could that be.?” Thank God,they had no contradiction detectors as far as I can see.That would come much later! (PS some obsessive scholarly type is sure to contradict me here lol)

2- Democratic Illusions: Make no mistake about it .Our schools are centers of indoctrination! And one of the forms of indoctrination is transmitting “Democratic values“..Some of these include ” We are all created equal”; the best way to arrive at Truth or make dicisions is through discussions”.”All opinions are equally valid”: Each of these is demonstrably false.But that in no way prevents the promoters of democracy from believing them.After all it’s an article of faith,no.

So,for example,all men are created equal” Really?! Have you not noticed?! Want to come to the Children’s section of  the Douglas hospital where I worked and taught  for several years and see the multiply -handicapped(May Allah have Mercy upon them) from birth?Have you not noticed that some people are tall and others short,some are strong and others weak,some are smart and others stupid.How can you possibly believe in this equality.And the same holds for opinions,Many are outrightly wrong and some are really primitive and foolish! So give me a break. And btw an old aphorism of mine “any system or person that denies reality is unlikely to succeed”! Any wonder that we are in such a state in the world?!

And how does this play out in a context of spiritual teaching?! Well,the Westerner believes firmly that his ideas are as good as anyone else s-including,of course the teachers. If they happen to be talented at robotic schoolwork and thus get excellent grades at school,they are even more arrogant.I had  a 19-year old niece who had just taken her first Comparative Religion 101 course vociferously arguing with me about Buddhism! The “chutzpah ” of it is astounding.But, democratically, her opinion is as valid as someone on the path of seeking truth for the last 50 years?! Her democratic right,no?!

c) Secularism; This is another huge subject, all around us, that merits more attention at another time..Fortunately most of the students that enter a spiritual path have graduated from that low level of understanding.But vestiges do remain! And those vestiges often take the form of “doubting”. It is a short step from doubting the existence of God to doubting that the teacher in front of you basically knows what he is talking about-even if he errs on the details at times. PS Obsessionalism, which is another derivative  of doubt is one more obstacle.”How could my teacher be authentic if his Arabic pronunciation is not perfect?” could be an example in the Islamic context.Or ” his pants go beyond his ankles” or “her hair is appearing beneath her hijab” .Yes,I have heard it all, lol

Given all these obstacles,this is ceratinly not a path for the frail-hearted or the weak and weary.This is a path for the “rijal”(the men and women of courage and integrity). Join us if you have the desire and the sincerity to do so.We will welcome you with open arms and  stern admonishments lol

 

 

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The Real Problem of the Taliban-Religious Materialism

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The Taliban have recaptured Afghanistan!So we see these noble,dignified soldiers dressed in sunnat clothing and if we look no further,we could be impressed.Personally,I find their dress,at least for the males,much more appealing than that of Western politicians who are essentially wearing the garb of the lower echelons of the royal courts-the jacks of the monarchy!.As to the women,the imposed dress code is both awful and unnatural-the product of a misplaced principle of modesty.We will look into the issue of “principles” a little later in the article as they seem to go hand in hand with “Materialism”.

Now,when I say materialism I am not referring to its sense of greediness and avarice as it is commonly used.I am referring to a philosophical,attitudinal position where the concrete is the predominant and determinant reality.So the Marxists say they are “dialectical materialists”. The scientific types say they are empirically-based .But Empiricism is just another form of materialism.And many of our religions are carrying another and even deeper form of materialism-the dress,the rituals the rules of the religion in its outer form.I call that”Religious Materialism”.

Now this is not what religion is supposed to be.This is not what the Prophets and founders and mystics of the religion were teaching.In fact,this common distinction between spirituality and religion is moot,in fact.True religion IS spiritual,by definition.But it appears that the human mind has a need to concretize and codify everything.And therein the problem begins.Now codification may well be necessary to some extant but it musn’t become predominant.Otherwise we are into religious bureaucracuy -an inevitable consequence of Religious Materialism.At that point,we have “thrown out the baby with the bathwater” so to speak.

So, paradoxically the Taliban have fallen into the same trap as the Marxists.The Marxists believed that if you changed the outward,economic situation of the people their inward state would change.And the Taliban believe that if you set up the structure of an Islamic state,people will become good and virtuous.So they are deeply misled.Au contraire what they become is rigid (uncompassionate) or hypocritical! Neither is a good outcome.Neither is what the founders of religion including our Prophet wished for!

So,when I look at the Taliban,I don’t see any of the “nur”(light) of Islam in their faces.I am sure this was not the case with the original Muslims around the Prophet saws.The unbelievers began seeing this transformatioin two generations after the Prophet saws where the nur of the Sahhabbas was beginning to diminish in the Muslim community.At this point in time you have to search it out unfortunately.I remember being in Mecca and looking and looking for it.I finally found it in a group of Bangladeshi people who belonged to the Naqshbandi order.And yes,it is the Sufis who are carrying this nur most clearly.It is not there-neither in the Taliban nor the Salafis nor the Shia generally.

Now,this is a universal phenomenon-not unique to Islam.We can find it in all religions.The original light and baraka and Love becomes a set of rules and regulations and customs and rituals.And the life is lost.No matter how noble the principles,how accurate the scriptrural exegeses,how clever the scholars,the very essence of the religion,the sap of the tree so to speak, is lost.And then we too are lost.

One of the paradoxes of this Materialism is that it is almost inevitably tied to a series of principles -i.e. things that are not material in themselves but of course end up being materialized in ways that are often contrary to the origins of the principles themselves! So the Marxists are bound to the notion of “The Dictatorship of the Proletariat” which then becomes the dictatorship of the top echelons of the Communist party.The Scientific Materialists become the advocates of the “randomized,placebo-controlled, multi-centered , peer-reviewed articles in published  prestigious journals”(That IS a mouthful lol) and then miss the Reality on the ground as they did so ignobly with early treatment of Covid epidemic.That one cost millions of lives on its own!The Christian Materialists massacre those from a different faith as in the Spanish inquisition and the Crusades and burn the witches at the stake in the name of “The Love of Jesus” Wa la howla wala quwatta.And the Muslim Materialists continually talk about “Quran and sunnat” while missing the wisdom ,compassion and humanity of both.These contradictions tend to supplant the original intentions and tend to have a very long life,unfortunately.

Once the essence is lost,the entire structure is compromised.Peoples hearts are dry and all sorts of excesses and cruelties become possible.Thence the critique of the secularists against religions.And unfortunately they have a point.

So now we can see it, in its full manifestation, in the Taliban.Outer,materialistic religion.what a trap?! The devil must be rubbing his hands in glee.And yet,these people think what they are doing is right and pure.Little do they know what trap they have fallen into.I will let God decide their fate but for sure I will not be part of it and I will call them out as I have done many times in the past to the other Islamic Materialists-the Wahhabbis.I clearly remember leaving one of their dinner invitations saying to them bluntly:”I do not see any light in your faces.How can I possibly believe your words” And I said the same to a group of Shia who were also trying to convince me of their ideas.Until I see the light and feel the Love,their empty words are meaningless.

So,is there a way out?! Of course there is!. Allah would not leave us with a problem for which there is no solution.But the way out requires something that few people seem willing to do-self-observation(muraqabat). Let me give you an example!

About twelve years ago, in Jordan, I met an ex-Wahhabbi who had come to spend time with my sheikh of the time-Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller.”How did you get here?” I asked” Wahhabbis never come to see the Sufis.” He told me that he was earnestly following the Wahhabbi way(now they cal themsaelves Salafis after the early generation of Muslims but they are very far from the state of those noble ones!). He continued to tell me his story;’My heart was dry .I could feel nothing.And then I appealed to my Lord for help.He swt sent me a dream in which the Prophet saws was driving a Chevrolet?! ” I knew then that Sheikh Nuh was a true representative of our Prophet and my Wahhabbi teachers were a mere shadow of that reality-at best.That is the kind of lucidity required to break out of the Materialist conundrum that troubles all the religions.May Allah help us to remain inwardly rich and alive and not to fall into the trap of outwardliness. Salaams,Ibrahim

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Transhumans Rule?!

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Watching Richard Branson being interviewed on CNN after launching into space)These prominent billionaire types- Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, to name a few -are simply WEIRD!.Call it what you will- transhuman? robotic?humanoid? extraterrestrial? Can you not see that?! This must be another sign of the end of Days.The leaders are barely human?!
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The Delusion- of Objectivity- Continues

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(Answer to an old friend saying he doesn’t believe anything said by Tucker Carlson)-More black and white thinking ., Jim..! If you are seriously interested in the Truth you have to learn discernment- as opposed to fixed positions.It is a testimony to the total failure of our educational system that intelligent, well- educated people like yourself still take fixed positions dependent on their philosophical and political biases.

That should be the domain of theology and many, many people who say they believe in science have actually become theologians of ” “scientism”,instead of learning how to observe properly.This theological position has cost literally millions of lives in the current pandemic as the theologians have refused to acknowledge the efficacy of off-label drugs like hydroxychloroquine and Ivermecton in favor of the catechism of “double-blind , placebo-controlled,peer-reviewed large-scale studies published in prestigious medical journals” What a mouthful lol! Would make even the most pedantic of Christian and Talmudic scholars choke on while swallowing lol Just like it’s predecessors “The Dictatorship of the Proletariat” and “the Analysis of the Transference ” as solutions to our deepest problems, it is bound to disappoint!

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Science is NOT Beautiful!

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Joel Ibrahim Kreps

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Btw. I appreciate what Kory and Weinstein and Chris Matenson and RFK jr. amongst others are saying.And I have learnt a lot from all of them.But I disagree with one fundamental issue! Science is NOT beautiful and it is certainly NOT the answer,In fact at this point ,it is safe to say that science is now causing more harm than good.The Covid epidemic was caused by science!( the gain of function research started in the USA and continued in Wuhan,China)Science is responsible for the epidemics of cancer and Alzheimer’s and autism and auto-immune disrders and antibiotic-resistant bacteria..Science is responsible for the contamination of our food and water and air.So making a God of science ,besides being heretical,is simply not supported by the evidence.And now that our wonderful science is promoting electrical cars and solar panels and windmills-all of which produce toxic dirty electricity.So  the statement by Weinstein that “science is beautiful” is more B.S. Camels are beautiful;cars are ugly.Fields are beautiful;concrete highways are ugly.Birds are beautiful;airplanes are ugly etc.,etc.So lets stop praising science and start “Praising the Lord” as the Christians say lol.Salaams,Ibrahim
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A Simple Scientific Error!

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An Archimedes moment! Eureka! Got it. A simple scientific error is at the heart of it all! They are confusing the hypothesis with the conclusion! Remember the basic scientific model:Observation-Hypothesis-Experimentation -Conclusion.Well they stopped at stage 2 and considered that their Conclusion!
I pointed this out in my first book about Evidence-Based Medicine.The hypothesis was that if you followed the scientific literature in your medical practice,you would get better results than if you used your own judgment and clinical experience.Well,they still haven’t tested that one out.The conclusion was already assumed.Very unscientific of them lol.
But now,we have an even starker example -about vaccines.No,not the Covid vaccines .The jury is still out on that one.Rather the vaccine mandates for children.The hypothesis was that, since children suffered from infections often,the best thing you could do for their health was to vaccinate them against every possible infection you could! Plausible hypothesis…Well,after many,many years of denying and procrastination,the jury is in! Massive vaccination is BAD for childrens’ health.Turns out that multiple assaults on the immune system via vaccines is bad for childrens’ immune system(produces hyper-reactivity)and for the brain(neurotoxic!)But the hypothesis, in the meantime, had become a Conclusion.No room there for new evidence.Very simple problem.Very severe consequences.May God help us all!
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An Epidemic of Deafness!

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Florida Building Collapses!– You can be sure of one thing .That one or more people saw this coming and said something.Then many people around including the managing contractors and regulators didn’t listen.We are suffering from an epidemic far worse than the Covid pandemic.! t is an epidemic of deafness.In fact if you go back and analyze the pandemic you will realize that it could have easily been prevented except for the deafness that occurred around it.May God help us!
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Agnostics and Atheists ,Lend me your Ears!

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Introductory note: This article is written for all the well-intentioned, kind-hearted A&Aers(we will use A&As as an abbreviation at times for Atheists and Agnostics during this article for the sake of brevity lol).They have been unwittingly sold a bill of goods by a very skilful and manipulative cabal of philosophers and marketers that have been operating for a very long time.I hope this article may serve to put a dent into their well-honed atheistic armour!

There is a common social narrative, in contemporary society,  that religious people are brain-washed by their religious leaders and agnostics are free-thinkers! Actually,nothing could be further from the truth! For over two hundred years, at least, the Western mind (and now it is present in the East as well) has been indoctrinated with atheistic principles .From the French Revolutions ” Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité” which puts all the emphasis on the human position to Nietzche’s “God is Dead” to the Empiricism of John Locke and the so-called “Scientific Revolution”, the Western mind has been inundated with atheistic concepts that put man at the centre of the Universe as opposed to God.Ironically this is the polar opposite to the equally politically correct Copernican discovery that the sun was the center of our galaxy,not the Earth.As opposed to that great astronomical discovery,A&As assert again the centrality of man as opposed to his Creator.I guess human arrogance and self-centeredness continues to reassert itself in various and sundry ways!

N.B.Empiricism is a biggie here because it says that all you can know is what you can see and hear with your five senses.Only the outer and the measurable is true in this vision. “Evidence-Based” and “data based”-we hear those phrases over and over again like a tired mantra.Now science has taken up the flag of this Empiricism and misled many,many people who have lost touch with their inner senses.Working as psychiatrists and psychotherapists, we can see how that imbalance wreaks destruction on peoples lives as well as their general understandings.On a larger scale the politicians and administrative governing bodies, including those pf private corporations, are all corrupted by this point of view! No wonder we are in such a mess!

This philosophical brain-washing has been going on right up until the modern epoch.So we have the Existentialists like Sartre and Camus making the same case.In Britain we have the esteemed philosopher Bertrand Russell writing”Why I am Not a Christian”. And then there are the great scientific geniuses like Freud and Marx and Darwin (although in all fairness to the latter, he ,for one,remained a believing Christian up to his death) telling us the same story.In recent times we have been treated to the eloquence of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins repeating the same narrative.So anyone thinking that he,himself,came up with this narrative is seriously deluded or incorrigibly arrogant.The story-line has been developing for centuries!

Now,the story line goes something like this.”Religion has been a bad actor for millenia.It has caused countless acts of violence and sowed division across the globe.Now there is some Truth to that statement.I will spare you,for now,however the historical analysis of non-religious movements like Fascism and Communism.The historians that have investigated this have concluded that non-religious movements have actually caused more death and destruction than religious ones!- but that is a discussion for another time.

This  story line also tells us that although religion is BAD ,spirituality is GOOD,What is ignored in that affirmation is the fact that almost all forms of spirituality come from religion! I discovered that for the first time when I studied Transcendental Meditation back in the seventies-advertised as a secular practice.I quickly realized that the meditation techniques being taught were permeated through and through with Hindu philosophy,language and rituals.So too is Mindfulness- related to Buddhism and Yoga to Vedantic Hinduism. Separating spirituality from religion is like separating breathing from lung function! Impossible.Can’t be done.

Another part of this atheistic narrative is that science can explain everything.Really!? So when we see the obvious  contradiction in the image  of the famous physicist, Stephen Hawking, almost completely incapacitated in a wheelchair because of A.L.S promoting the Big Bang Theory as a potent theory for origin of the Universe,we have to recoil in disbelief! The fact that we do not react with disbelief is a sign of how far we have dissociated ourselves from common sense! The Big Bang Theory may tell us what some of the early events were in the Creation story.But it certainly doesn’t tell us the Original Cause.

In fact None of the Great scientific theories can tell us the Original cause-neither the theory of Evolution, in biology, nor the Class Struggle, in political history, nor the Unconscious of psychoanalysis nor the Theory of Relativity in Physics..They  only address intermediary causes.And thus they tell us nothing about ultimate Causation and even less about meaning!

Another interesting irony here- there is more diversity in religious theory than there is in A&A theory!The agnostic discourse almost always has the same refrain.”Religious people are deluded.They believe in order  to make themselves feel better about their lives.And their religious leaders have put a blindfold over their vision” .They all,universally, say the same thing!

Paradoxically,in the religious domain,however,diversity abounds!Some religions(Hinduism and Buddhism for example) believe that our Ultimate goal is Enlightenment.Western religions hold that our purpose is to worship God and serve Him.Very big difference there!. Some religions,like Christianity,believe that God incarnated in the flesh.Judaism and Islam reject that idea categorically.Judaism believes in the chosen nature of its nation while Islam and Christianity believe in the Equality of all humans.The list goes on and on.But it is intriguing to see that are more substantial differences in the minds of religious people than that in the supposedly “free- thinkers”.How ironical?! All the ‘free thinkers’ come to the same conclusions.Makes you wonder about their supposed freedom!

Now,let us get to the crux of the matter-the Basic Epistemology if you wish.The idea that there is no God is just that-an idea.Any self-reflecting atheist will have to admit that! You cannot prove the non-existence of something.Even the Western legal systems have come to the same conclusion.You cannot prove the non-existence of a thing or an event.So the notion of the non-Existence of God is just that-a notion.

On the other side,let us forget for now about Prophets and Saints and mystics and angels and Holy Books for now-although that is admittedly factoring out a lot of data! But I know how much those entities are anathema to the A&A mindset.So instead let us look at the n.d.e experiences as I relate them in my book “The Big Questions:Evidence-Based Faith'”These are ordinary people,most often not particularly religious some even being atheists prior to their experience.

Yes I am well aware that there is a commonplace pseudo-scientific argument that these represent the delusions of a dying brain.Anyone familiar with brain physiology and pathology should immediately see through that bogus argument( if you need more ‘scientific’ proof you can check out the work of Bruce Greyson and Pim Van Lomel although I must say that if you need to go that far in your research ,you are probably a lost cause lol). All forms of brain pathology create dysfunction and perturbations and physiological disease like headaches and vertigo and epilepsy.This form has as its effect more compassion,more serenity and more perspective on human life itself.How could that possibly be pathological?! Au contraire, instead of incapacitating the individual,it improves mental health and clarity.

So… these ordinary people in life-threatening situations see deceased relatives ,the heavens and the hellworlds, and beings of Light and God Himself-sometimes as separate from them and sometimes merged in His Essential Consciousness.They confirm ALL the teachings of the saints and mystics.And they have no more doubts!Then they report back to us their discoveries- as witnesses.

Let me be very clear here.If you are still holding on to an atheistic or agnostic position you are believing in a philosophical theory rather than in actual human experience.IMHO,that is a really bad choice-a bad exchange.And the loss in the hereafter could be VERY long-lasting.May God help you see the light!

Addendum.Since the most common objection about the relevance of the n.d.e experience is that it must be a change in brain chemistry caused by the dying brain, let me give you what I believe to be an accurate and simple analogy.And btw, this modernistic,”scientific” reflex,about brain chemistry,is a thoroughly conditioned response.Where are you now Skinner,the father of the conditionned reflex lol, now that we need you to explain this to people lol?!

The analogy goes like this:It’s the beginning of the summer and a   neighbour tells you that there is a new ice-cream shop that opened down the road.So what are the possibilities? The neighbour may be a compulsive liar or even a sadistic teaser.Or he could have mis-spoken (dysphasia lol) or bought new glasses recently and thought that the computer repair shop was actually an ice-cream place.Or again he could be a psychic who saw into heavenly worlds where there are always ice-cream shops on hot days lol. Those are the kind of obtuse explanations the “scientists” are looking for!

But, far and away ,the most likely version is that the ice-cream shop is a reality and you are best off checking it out ASAP! You see,the scientists are operating from theory and conjecture and ideology.The bottom line is they don’t want to believe in other-worldly realities because it goes against their attachment to Philosophical Materialism and Atheism.Actually,now that I think about it,Agnosticism is actually a sophisticated cover-up for Atheism.They,too, prefer their “mind-productions” to actual reality.May God help them to open their hearts and souls.On the other hand,if they just use their minds it will surely lead them astray!