P - Perfect (In measurement & work)
Y - Yielding (More Yield In Agriculture & Wish Fulfillment)
R - Rainbow colour, resonant (Pyramid Fire Aghnihotra, Responding Thought)
A - Almighty (Represents Cosmic Power)
M - Mathematics, Mysterious (Perfect Angle & Size, Wonderful results)
I - Intuition (To Get Inner Help Towards Upliftment)
D - Dynamic (Full Of Power)
But wait. There's more. Er. R. Prasad also informs us, about the sacred art of Dowsing. Dowsing, he assures us, is the study of energy field by a person with 'electromagnetic ability'. He also adds that there is very little in this world that cannot be found by Dowsing. Pendulums, and other such simple devices, are all he needs. He also adds:
The pendulum's contact with our body acts as a "witness device" - something which has been in physical contact with us. This physical contact establishes a psychometric relationship between person and object; a sympathetic attraction once created may endure for unlimited time.
It is recommended to clear your dowsing instruments from time to time to neutralize these energetic emanations; cleansing dowsing tools can be done in a number of ways including immersion in a jar of seasalt overnight.
I have no doubt that the scientific community has misunderstood Foucault and Galileo all these years. They were of course people with electromagnetic ability, and they were, in all likelihood, looking for scientific truth through this ancient and sacred art. It is also probably how the Indians found the Zero. Andrew Wiles must have found the proof for Fermat's last theorem in this way too. We are also informed that many big companies dowse for oil and precious stones, but never admit it due to concerns about their image (Can you believe that!). It is only a minor step of logic from there, to say that individuals (with electromagnetic ability) also follow this example, and simply claim that they had to work for years before they could achieve their goal. It all makes so much sense now.
Maybe, instead of spending billions of taxpayer money to look for the Higgs Boson, all they had to do was pay Er. R. Prasad his fees, Rs. 11000 a day (plus airfare, obviously) for a full day visit to CERN and give him a pendulum. I'm sure, with a long enough pendulum and enough time, he could sniff it out even if it were hidden in Michael Jackson's face.
P.S.: I have a humble question for Nameologists and Numerologists out there: My incapable mind does not comprehend the deep science of modifying the English spellings of people's names (which are originally from an Indian language) which will then go on to change their fortunes. Suneel or Sunil or Suniel, it is still सुनील in Hindi and ಸುನೀಲ್ in Kannada. How to decide what language? Or is the Roman Alphabet the King of Good Times?
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the most recent work in debunking astrology and related shit.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/mar102009/641.pdf
when i think of astrology, i am reminded of the zombie movies where the hero and his arm-candy are faced with the hopeless task of fighting cityloads of killer zombies. the key to the horror evoked by these movies is the fact that you cannot reason out with zombies over a cuppa coffee, they only respond to shotguns.
we will fight on.
i experience a similar horror when i think of how many people believe in astrology, numerology and allied 'sciences'!
ReplyDeletebrilliant writeup man !
ReplyDeletemade my day :D
@karatalaamalaka: Saar, your views on God and religion please.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to read a journal paper where some 200 participants were asked to pray and later interviewed to find out if their prayer was answered...maybe even a comparative study of the power of different Gods!
Shastri: The world is full of idiots. But then, you will do no better by weaning them off astrology, because they will only stick to something equally stupid. Astrology is only the effect. Stupidity is the cause.
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ReplyDeleteso what my fellow soldier of nanotechnology, is the solution ?
you are right. weaning them off astrology is like curing the symptom. we need to address the disease, which is the prevalence of irrationality. the masses should be educated, people should be made to think scientifically, etc. etc. same old same old. i really wouldn't mind if people worshiped Darwin and believed in the predictions of science and common sense. i dream of a day when everyone believes in scientific predictions such as 'you might get cancer if you smoke' rather than 'you might get cancer because Saturn is in some orbital position with respect to the Earth' blah blah.
ReplyDeleteI don't think there IS any solution (other than the 'Mass Enlightenment' of people(!)). In any case, to be true to Science, I can only say that I am unsure about the existence of any such mysterious force, or we would be doing the mistake as the people who do believe in astrology. The only answer to it is 'I don't know'. It is the arrogance of these dead-sure astrologers which gets me more than anything else. Is it so difficult to just accept the humility of ignorance?
ReplyDeleteWhat I mean is, I can be quite certain that there is no such mysterious force, but to dismiss it altogether would be arrogance. On a scale of 1 to 10, ( 1 being Er. R. Prasad and 10 being a dead-sure non-believer), I would rate myself at 9.9, or maybe 9.99- but never 10.
ReplyDeleteyes....as agnostic about god as I am about the tooth fairy, or the flying spagetti monster. Agnosticism tending (in the limit) towards atheism, but never reaching it. because nonexistence is as unprovable as existence.
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