Dead People – Wrong Allegiance Dream 23 – 05-2025

May 23, 2025May 23, 2025 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

I had a dream this morning in which I was visited by two people who have been reported as dead. I have not seen either of them in the warm flesh for twenty years so it was a bit out of the blue. I was again talking with dead people.

It has pointed back to the old “wrong end of the stick” theme in which my dreams, time and again, suggest that various people have gotten entirely the wrong end of the stick about me and what I think / am. This wrong end of the stick has been incorporated into their assimilation of world view and there is bugger all I can do to get them to let go of the wrong end of the stick. The wrong end of the stick is stuck fast.

It also raises the question of allegiance. For example, is my allegiance with the holy church of physical sciences, am I a delusional new-age crystal feeler, a reincarnated Buddhist or a Toltec nagal. Or is my allegiance with the eccentric nut-job loony tunes psychotic whackos?

It is a strange quirk of human behaviour and orientation that people want to know what your allegiance is, to which gang /club / cult you belong. People want you to choose sides; you can’t be both a Blood and a Crip.

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This gang orientation pervades society. Are you a glamorous cavalier Brexiteer or a grey whinging Remoaner? Thanks to Gary Glitter we all have to join a gang…

If you are not pure-blood, a muggle of sorts, those high in the gang hierarchy won’t accept you. You need to chose and earn your “colours”, learn the jargon and use gang mudra. You can’t chant Research Excellence Framework bullet points and Guru Rinpoche mantra. You must choose to which gang you avow allegiance.

You are not allowed to be both, a quantum superposition. It is forbidden by classical thinking. Either or trumps both and. Get off the fence!!

People can be very adamant about allegiance; they kill for it and exclude people who are not fully sworn into or paid up members of the {one and only} club. If you err you can be excommunicated and shunned.

If you were to suggest to a cult member of any club or society that they were prejudiced, they would adamantly deny, after all WE know best and everyone else is an ignorant pleb.

{Don’t you know old chap.}

It is nigh on impossible to persuade anyone who has gotten the wrong end of the stick, otherwise.

Sticks are called sticks because they are sticky.

Haemochromatosis and Inertia

May 18, 2025 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

The dream this morning suggests that the French train has stopped. There is no more motion and that nothing is moving. Not moving inertia has set in. Even though events were in motion, that juggernaut has been brought to a halt and looks unlikely to get going again.

Inertia is a symptom of the French system. It is bloody difficult to get started, when it is moving it sweeps all before it, it can be difficult to stop if you don’t comply or agree. But once it has stopped it is bloody difficult to get moving again. Generally, once started things here work out fine just so long are there is nothing anomalous or out of the ordinary. Healthcare can lack the human touch and is very hierarchical, one dares not question deity. They are very happy to throw a lot of cash at things. It can be silo thinking with job demarcation. Global overviews are less common deference is made to specialty. By and large it works and works very well.

Into the equation now of house move is the arthroplasty question.

If, when and where to have my hips replaced?

I don’t take it for granted as it being my right, my due. I do not want to impose or inflict myself. The French system has already been very kind to us. The rheumatologist in Jersey suggested that I need my bone density / brittleness checked out. This is good advice before they take my Titanium pin out. It would be a bit of a shitter if my leg broke without the metal pin. My mind says pin out of left leg. Heal. Hip replace right hip. Heal. Hip replace left hip {if possible}. Heal.

Sounds like a fun year.!! Yipee!!

The high haemoglobin results I have could point at a “faulty” gene sometimes referred to as the Celtic curse. Haemochromatosis. My family has genetic heritage in and around Snowdonia where there is genetic clustering.

“We used 2039 samples from rural areas of the British Isles, from people whose four grandparents were all born within 80km (50 miles) of each other. After over a decade of sample collection and data analysis, the findings of the study were published in Nature on the 19^th of March 2015.

We were absolutely astonished to obtain 17 clusters of individuals based solely on similarities in their DNA that matched remarkably well their geographical locations.

The map shown in Figure 1 is a plot of all the individuals at the average position of their grandparents’ place of birth, where different groups are represented by the combination of the type of symbol and its colour.

The most striking observation is the extraordinary correspondence between the genetic clusters and geographical location.”

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Apparently, you need a prescription from the GP to have yourself genetically tested for this gene which can cause iron build up. My serum ferritin is high in addition to haemoglobin. I can’t buy a test of my genes.

I had better steer clear of strong magnetic fields.

When I try to tell people that gogs, North Wales folk, are different. People just nod and humour me. The study above from Oxford university suggests that there is gog-gene clustering. [Green squares].

Sometimes I have researched things way more thoroughly than your average bear.

I have a pet theory that people are like tabloid newspapers. They tend to exaggerate and say things to garner attention and are less keen on thorough detailed fact checking. I find myself often checking whatever it is that “they” have told me in conversation, especially advice. “They” are rarely the best witnesses. Things are bigged up and other things omitted. It is the conversational equivalent of click bait.

Wait times for hip arthroplasty in Wales range from around one year to greater than two, dependent upon location. We might call this the UK hip lottery. So, a move to Wales would mean around at least an 18 months wait for a new hip.

The problem with Dr Google and Prof. DuckDuckGo is that they tend to open up more possibilities. I suspect that unlike many I am able to read and generally comprehend the latest medical research articles…

We are kind of caught in the inertia again…the summer holidays are looming which means nothing much doing here until autumn…

Oh well…

The Prof and The Rinpoche – Dream Follow Up

May 9, 2025May 9, 2025 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

The probability of me being a leftie has increased in my understanding since being in this marriage. The wife notices when I do things the “wrong” way round. When I have picked up something like a bow and arrow I have started the left handed way. I always wore watches on my right wrist. Being forced to write right handed and having many marks deducted for my messy handwriting and shit drawing may have kept me back. I now have a certain natural “ambidexterity”. I had behavioural problems at school, perhaps the obligatory dexterity had a role.

I found out today that I have been doing my meditation mudras the “wrong” lefthanded way. A mirror image. I look at mudras and think that is odd. My hands don’t do that.

The passive nocturnal dreaming seems to be converging on some kind of recent “Tibetan” life. It is not Tibet-envy. I don’t particularly want to be/have been Tibetan and have no strange craving for Yak’s butter.

The dream this morning has me referred to as Rinpoche. A term often used for reincarnated lamas of some attainment. There are rare cases when incarnations are recognised late in life.

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Rinpoché ou Rinpotché, Rimpoché, Rimpotché (tibétain : རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie : rin-po-che, THL : rinpoche, dialecte de Lhassa API : rin’potʃe) est une épithète honorifique propre au bouddhisme tibétain. L’adjectif rinpoché signifie littéralement « précieux ». Le titre Rinpoché est généralement réservé à un lama incarné. Il fait référence au fait que le lama est reconnu comme la réincarnation d’un grand maître du bouddhisme tibétain, suivant une tradition spécifique du Tibet.

Également appelé tulkou (tibétain : སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, Wylie : sprul sku, lit. Sanskrit : nirmāṇakāya, « corps d’émanation »), mais dans la majorité des cas, il s’agit simplement d’un titre de courtoisie.

Wikipédia

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I might yet have a career as a ninja action hero in films and as a buddy of Putin {Steven Seagal}.

There is no real likelihood of some senior Buddhist dude saying, “yes, he is the incarnation of Joe Bloggs Rinpoche.”

It seems to me that the rate of recognition of western tulkus is in decline. I have no association with a sangha nor were my parents Buddhist. There was a spurt in recognition occurrence when the Tibetan diaspora took hold.

My behaviour to date is not one of shining virtue and abstemious living. I am not good PR.

There are less Rinpoches than science professors. I have met way more of the latter and only very briefly, en passant, one of the former. By analogy to the US system, I was once an Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry. If I had stayed in that system they might have made me full professor just before I died / retired.

It has often tickled me, the notion of tipping up at Imperial College dressed in full monk’s robes and going around knocking on the doors of people who once knew me, many of whom are professors. I would have to get a swipe card to be let in. They may not let me past security, especially if I was dressed funny.

They may or may not have spoken well of me in then past. I may have pissed a few of them off. The first look on their faces would be precious even for a Rinpoche. You can’t buy that kind of experience; it would be priceless, unrepeatable.

But probably that is not going to happen.

It is possible {though unlikely} in the fullness of time that there might be a Wikipedia page about me. I certainly might be the only one with two EUV and one Quantum Optics patent. I probably have the most extensive physical sciences publications list.

To follow on from the dream I could have both “titles”.

I’ll speculate that it would make me a rather unusual incarnation, were it true and/or real.

In terms of kudos common or garden professors have a contextual kudos which varies. During COVID professorial status was elevated even if they were seen as killjoys. They saved lives. People like Trump don’t like “liberal” or “commie bastard” academics.

In certain contexts, Rinpoches have an elevated status and many seek their blessings. Some have entourages and security. They mix in different circles from ours.

In their own cultural contexts, they have more kudos than profs.

Not sure where this dreaming is headed…

Last night there was no Buddhist / Tibetan influence. We watched a recording of University Challenge and some UK TV. There was no conscious pondering. The whole dream came “out of nowhere”.

There is a part of me that is hesitant to go to bed…

What next???

Whale Totem – Dream Follow Up

May 2, 2025May 2, 2025 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

Following on from this morning’s dream. The dream suggested that whales are totemic to me. That I am protected in a pod.

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Here is the whale totem from “Animal Speak” by Ted Andrews.

ISBN 0-87542-028-1

Llewellyn Publications, St Paul, Minnesota, USA.

The Inuit {Inupriaq} had a special relationship with the bowhead whale…

Consciousness Studies Dream Folow Up

April 16, 2025 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

I have watched a number of YouTube clips in which Roger Penrose theorises that consciousness perhaps arises from quantum mechanical effects in microtubules in neurons and synaptic processes. This presupposes an electromagnetic and matter {meat} based explanation for consciousness. It seeks acceptance from the narrow minded scientific quasi Newtonian-Maxwellian approach to reality.

It must be electrical or mechanical and thereby measurable with modern scientific instrumentation.!!

“Bung some electrodes on their head stick ‘em in an fMRI scanner. Watch those nuclei flip and understand consciousness….”

This is a bit of leap, more than a quantum leap. It is an exclusive hypothesis. Few consciousness researchers are themselves highly skilled in meditation. Their minds are filled with research proposals, career progress milestones and the grant dollar together with peer review kudos. They need to be peer-acceptable to have career longevity.

I’ll speculate that any finding which erred from the obligatory norm would not go down well, it would be a lead balloon close to the surface on a planet with high mass and low radius.

The dream previous can best be viewed as an echo, something which once might have happened but cannot ever now.

Because I am not institutionalised, pertaining to any august body whether academic or otherwise, I will not be participating in any “study”. I have no fame or kudos and as an eccentric loner I do not walk in any circles, apart from around my/our pond. There is no way that anyone could justify my employment on the basis of metrics or references. I am completely outside the system, the box, and likely to remain there. I may get one box when I die.

On the off chance that I even had anything to add the likelihood of events portrayed in that dream are now vanishingly small.

That is the way the web of life works. There are faint residuals of possibilities therein. They take a while to fully fade. Life trajectories bifurcate and possible paths, fates, fade. The active trajectory becomes more “real”. Faint echoes remain for a while.

Weird …