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Where have all the souls come from?
Avatar Meher Baba has remarked that the spike in world population in the past 120 plus years has been the result of immigration from outer planets to take birth on Earth so as to benefit from the present Avataric advent. … Continue reading
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Modi’s government’s attack on Meherabad
The following letter came from the chairman of the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust in India today. It announces the sudden imposition of draconian restrictions by the Government of India on the section of Meherabad known as Lower … Continue reading
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How Green is Green Energy?
Global warming since the beginning of the industrial age is approaching the redline of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Most of this heat is stored in the oceans where it is affecting global weather patterns. The world is not reducing fossil fuel … Continue reading
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Karma Vs. Dharma
Karma denotes the fate that we we are destined to experience on the basis of past lives. Dharma denotes the appropriate attitude we should bring to the discharge of that karma. The only “free will” we have lies in the … Continue reading
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Making sense of politics…
People get needlessly confused by politics. With the right set of references, it’s not that difficult to get it right. 1) Politics is about power: how to get it and how to keep it. 2) Politics runs on money, because … Continue reading
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Yet more thoughts on AI, the Machine Age, aka the Kali Yuga
In Wendy Doniger’s massive book, The Hindus: An Alternative history, in chapter 17- Avatar And Accidental Grace In The Latter Puranas, there is the following: “And at the end of the Kali Age, the minds of the people will become … Continue reading
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More thoughts on AI
AI is a parody of the faculty of reason- at hyper speed. It is a tool, based on the computing power of the microchip- which makes it a machine. But its power to copy the processes of the mind- including … Continue reading
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Some thoughts on AI
AI is rightly getting a lot of attention, but rarely from a cogent perspective. That technological man can make make a machine smarter or more capable than himself seems to be at the heart of the debate. This possibility worries … Continue reading
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Triumph of the capitalist neocon.
The two decades since 9/11 have witnessed the radicalization of American politics to a remarkable degree. The two political parties have slid to the far right in a mutual embrace of militarized corporatism promoting forever wars. At the same time … Continue reading
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What is politics?
Avatar Meher Baba famously said, “stay out of politics”. It’s not at all clear exactly what he meant by this, and there are divergent explanations. One comment by him on the utter insincerity of party politics- that it becomes impossible … Continue reading
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