Gods Life boats, a small thought with huge implications....

My most telling thought when I observe people during my journey through life.


During my varied experiences of life one thing which struck me most; A very minor and small thought but with vast implications.
Our creator sends many lifeboats during our lifetime. These are in terms of physical entities, thoughts, directives from the inner self or a group of genes acting like an internal guidance system of a missile giving course corrections to us to enable us to reach our destiny. Often times just like a missile, if we deviate more than the ability of the guidance system to course correct the missile self destructs so do we. However due to our learned nature and behaviour we chose to ignore these Lifeboats or fail to recognize them as such, as often times they are in conflict with the ideas of our thinking selves in terms of who we are and what we perceive to be the right things for us to do and achieve. At the end of the day we blame our creator that in spite of being a firm believer in him and that having diligently and sincerely offered our prayers for long, he has finally not granted us mercy and neither blessed us with his goodwill.

Reminds me of a story I read somewhere some time ago (in a lighter vein)…….
An elderly lady was well-known for her faith and for her boldness in talking about it. She would stand on her front porch and shout "PRAISE THE LORD!"
Next door to her lived an atheist who would get so angry at her proclamations he would shout, "There ain't no Lord!!"
Hard times set in on the elderly lady, and she prayed for GOD to send her some assistance. She stood on her porch and shouted "PRAISE THE LORD. GOD I NEED FOOD!! I AM HAVING A HARD TIME. PLEASE LORD, SEND ME SOME GROCERIES!!"
The next morning the lady went out on her porch and noted a large bag of groceries and shouted, "PRAISE THE LORD."
The neighbour jumped from behind a bush and said, "Aha! I told you there was no Lord. I bought those groceries, God didn't."
The lady started jumping up and down and clapping her hands and said, "PRAISE THE LORD. He not only sent me groceries, but He made the devil pay for them. Praise the Lord!"
Amen to that.

Health and fitness an oblique thought…….

1.      During my undergraduate and post graduate studies in Microwave Engineering, I remember my Professor dancing around the class like a Bharat Natyam Dancer, a hand raised to the sky another perpendicular to it and a leg perpendicular to the plane of both hands, trying to explain the Theory of EMT. EMT means Electro Magnetic Transmission. It was really amusing to watch. I truly appreciate the sincerity of my professors in trying to make us students understand. They always said “if you understand the  EMT theory then you can understand anything in this world”.

2.      If one looks at the human body and concentrates on the nervous system following facts come to light:

(a)    The brain or the central processing system is connected to all parts of the body for command and control. Like if you step on a nail barefoot, a signal is sent to the brain about an injury occurring, so the brain sends a communication signal back through the nervous system for the calf muscle to contract lifting the foot and saving the person from further severe injury.

(b)    There are millions of electrical signals emanating from the brain and going back to it. Some are involuntary (reflexive) and some are deliberate and some we do not have any conscious control of. Specially the house keeping functions of our body and organs like the lungs, heart and Kidneys and others.

(c)    Suffice to stay that there is a continuous flow of current from the brain to the body and from the body to the brain. Therefore we can state that a total current represented by a vector sum of currents flows out of the brain and into the brain at any given time. This current is always varying depending on the state of our bodies. 

   Applying Fleming's left and right hand rules (a bit unconventional) and the theory of EMT we can establish that our physical body is a Radio transmitter of a certain frequency and certain modulation which is unique to every person. The body acts like an omni-directional radio antennae transmitting in a solid angle of 360 degrees or in the shape of a sphere.

(d)    The mechanism of energy transport through a medium involves the absorption and re-emission of the wave energy by the atoms of the material. When an electromagnetic wave impinges upon the atoms of a material, the energy of that wave is absorbed. The absorption of energy causes the electrons within the atoms to undergo vibrations. After a short period of vibrational motion, the vibrating electrons create a new electromagnetic wave with the same frequency as the first electromagnetic wave. While these vibrations occur for only a very short time, they delay the motion of the wave through the medium. Once the energy of the electromagnetic wave is re-emitted by an atom, it travels through a small region of space between atoms. Once it reaches the next atom, the electromagnetic wave is absorbed, transformed into electron vibrations and then re-emitted as an electromagnetic wave. While the electromagnetic wave will travel at a speed of c (3 x 10⁸ m/s) through the vacuum of inter atomic space, the absorption and re-emission process causes the net speed of the electromagnetic wave to be less than c. Therefore theoretically this signal can continue travelling to infinity. We do not have instruments sensitive enough to receive this signal over large distances. However it can be measured with present technology at closer distances.

3.      In the history of Science, developing of a new instrument has always resulted in new understanding of Reality. Microscope, telescope, X-rays, camera, laser, computers - without these instruments modern science is powerless. Recently a new instrument came to being - a solid state computerized Gas Discharge Visualisation (GDV) camera for bio-electrography.
The GDV technique is based on the Kirlian effect, named after Semion Kirlian and his wife, who first recorded and studied stimulated electro-photonic images around various objects. Kirlian Aura seems to be able to serve as an extremely powerful and comprehensive medical diagnostics tool, capable of showing malfunctions of the body and mind long before any physical symptoms become evident. It seems that using Kirlian diagnostics, we may be able to take preventive measures, rather than wait until emergency treatments and surgery are required. A logical conclusion one can arrive at is that, if some of our organs are malfunctioning or just starting to malfunction then the modulation of these radio waves aka energy fields radiating from us can give us a clue to that. Kirlian or aura Photography does exactly that. The pictures of auras of healthy people and people suffering from specific diseases are taken individually and studied. Then conclusions can be drawn regarding how the kirlian pictures look for healthy people and for those with specific diseases.  Conversely if we can repair our auras and get our pictures compairable again to those of healthy individual pictures then the disease can be said to be eradicated. This repair of our Auras can be carried out by various means. After a lot of experience and studies by me I personally feel that Sitting silently/Meditation, Pranayam and Luk Tung Kuen exercises are some of the leading instruments to remain healthy mentally and emotionally.  It is interesting to note that there are various explanations to the formation of these auras. Some totally debunking it some giving this phenomenon a lot of credence. Another system is the Polycontrast Interference Photography or PIP. This too is a recent development to take aura pictures.

4.      Lastly if we are a source of a radio transmission with person specific parameters, then if some entity has the receiver in his brain to receive and decode our person specific transmissions then the possibility of Extra Sensory Perception Exists.

Just a thought to ponder upon……….

NAIROBI RAILWAY MUSEUM - NAIROBI KENYA

Railways of any country hold a romance of their own. I have been a railway freak right from my child hood. I remember spending hours and hours on weekends at remote railway sidings and crossings. Specially many of my child hood nights have been spent listening to the eerie wails of the steam locos in the 50's as they gathered speed leaving Meerut Cantonment station. The whistles changing tones due to the Doppler effect, speeding on to either Delhi or Amritsar, hauling the Flying Queen, Frontier Mail or the Dehradun Express. The special goods locos had their distinct and harsh split whistles. I am 62 now but still nostalgically remember the thrill of those bygone days. I try to make it a point to travel by train in which ever country I happen to visit. My most memorable travel was by the Reunification Express (SE-3) from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam (2 nights and 2 days), so also from Singapore to Butterworth (Malaysia). Each rail road, country by country has its own smells, noises, the different type of clatter as the wheels cross the points and amazingly different whistles and the different rythms of coaches speeding on the tracks . The design of carriages, food enroute, the livery and off course the people. Ahh...  amazingly charming and thrilling.

Kenya Railways represents the historical growth of that country and Nairobi Railway Museum narrates the tale of the country’s evolvement, indeed it is the rail that developed Kenya to the country it is now! The Nairobi Railway Museum provides answers to many unanswered questions concerning the early history of the railway and Kenya’s development.

The Nairobi Railway Museum was opened in 1971, and much of the credit for its foundation goes to the first Curator, Mr. Fred Jordan, who had been with the railways in East Africa from 1927. Nairobi Railway Museum consists of four sections, the Main Gallery (collection of smaller items), the Museum Resource Center (library and photographic section), the auditorium and an outdoor collection of locomotives, coaches and wagons.

The Resource Centre is priceless to railway historians and researchers. It contains old railway records, correspondence and books on the construction of the Railways right from the planning stage. Here you find items of more general interest to the railway enthusiast. One end wall displays various company crests, which themselves trace the history of the railways in East Africa: the Uganda Railway, 1896; Tanganyika Railways, 1919; Kenya and Uganda Railway, 1926; East Africa Railways, 1969 and the most recent, Kenya Railways, 1978.

On the opposite end wall you will find originals of the blueprints of the arrangements made to take the railway construction materials down the steep escarpment into the Great Rift Valley, west of Nairobi. Four wire-rope inclines were built, two of which had a gradient of 1 in 1. These arrangements allowed the construction of the line to proceed along the floor of the Rift Valley at the same time as the difficult permanent descent into the valley was being built. The wire-rope inclines were in use for 18 months, during which time 170 miles of track were laid beyond. 

Exhibits relating to track and bridge construction include lifting and traversing jacks, a cant gauge, and variety of old point levers including some which were first used in India. 

In connection with the control of traffic on the railway, which is single track throughout, there are tablet instruments, a line-clear staff, a pantaphone (or telephone), a ‘dak box’, used at each station for the safe-keeping of railway messages and telegrams. Of special interest to the steam enthusiast are items belonging to old locomotives, such as an oil-burning headlamp, a steam-operated bell, and a nameplate from a Governor or 60 class Garrat. A very unusual item is a bench seat which could be fitted to the locomotive footplate above the cowcatcher to allow distinguished travelers on the line an unsurpassed view of East Africa’s scenery and wildlife. 

Among such visitors were the former American President Theodore Roosevelt and the Prince of Wales. The museum is located to the right side end of the present Nairobi Railway Station. I leave it to the reader to Identify the steam locos in the pictures.

Railway	Number	Name	Manufacturer	Class	Wheel arrangement	EAR&H number	Status
Kenya-Uganda Railway	327		Vulcan Foundry	ED1	2-6-2T	EAR 1127	Display
	87	Karamoja	Beyer-Peacock	EC3	4-8-4+4-8-4	EAR 5711	Display
	2401		Vulcan Foundry	EB3	4-8-0		Display
	2409		Vulcan Foundry	EB3	4-8-0		Operational
	5505		Beyer-Peacock	GB	4-8-2+2-8-4		Display
	393		Nasmyth Wilson	EE	2-6-4T	EAR 1003	Display
Tanganyika Railway	301		Beyer Peacock	DL	4-8-0	EAR 2301	Display
East African Railways	2921	Masai of Kenya	North British	Tribal	2-8-2		Display
	3020	Nyaturu	North British	Tribal	2-8-4		Operational
	3123	Bavuma	Vulcan Foundry	Tribal	2-8-4		Display
	5918	Mount Gelai	Beyer-Peacock	Mountain	4-8-2+2-8-4		Operational
	5930	Mount Shengena	Beyer-Peacock	Mountain	4-8-2+2-8-4		Display
	6006	Sir Harold MacMichael	Société Franco-Belge	Governor	4-8-2+2-8-4		Display
Magadi Soda Company		Hugh F Marriott	W.G. Bagnall		0-4-0ST		Display

This is a must see as I felt it made me understand the psychology of the country better. Plus it was wonderful to see the old steam locos, some of which were in use in India,  during my childhood. In fact being an Army officers brat we traveled a lot in the days of steam locos hauling our trains.