Aum Gung
Ganapathaye Namah
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma-sambuddhassa
Homage to The Blessed One, Accomplished and
Fully Enlightened
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful
Psychology
A Collection of Articles, Notes and References
References
(Revised:
Tuesday, March 06, 2007)
References Edited by
An Indian Tantric
What’s in a name? That
which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
- William Shakespeare
Copyright © 2002-2010 An
Indian Tantric
The following educational writings are STRICTLY for
academic research purposes ONLY.
Should NOT be used for commercial, political or any
other purposes.
(The following notes are subject to update and
revision)
For free distribution only.
You may print copies of this work for free
distribution.
You may re-format and redistribute this work
for use on computers and computer networks, provided that you charge no fees for its
distribution or use.
Otherwise, all rights reserved.
8 "... Freely you received, freely give”.
- Matthew 10:8 :: New American
Standard Bible (NASB)
1 “But mark this: There
will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their
parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather
than lovers of God—
5 having a form of
godliness but denying its
power. Have nothing to do with them.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all
kinds of evil desires,
7 always
learning but never able
to acknowledge the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses,
so also these men oppose the
truth--men of
depraved minds, who, as far as
the faith is concerned, are rejected.
9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those
men, their folly
will be clear to everyone.”
- 2 Timothy 3:1-9 ::
New International Version (NIV)
6 As
he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
- Hebrews 5:6 :: King James
Version (KJV)
Therefore, I say:
Know your
enemy and know yourself;
in a hundred battles,
you will never be defeated.
When you
are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself,
your chances of
winning or losing are equal.
If ignorant both of your
enemy and of yourself,
you are sure to be defeated in every battle.
-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War, c. 500bc
There are two ends not to
be served by a wanderer. What are these two? The pursuit of desires and of the pleasure which springs from desire,
which is base, common, leading to rebirth, ignoble, and unprofitable; and the pursuit of pain and
hardship, which is grievous, ignoble, and unprofitable.
- The Blessed One, Lord Buddha
Contents
Color Code
A Brief Word on Copyright
References
Educational Copy of Some of the References
Color
Code
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Color
Code Identification
Main
Title Color:
Pink
Sub
Title Color:
Rose
Minor
Title Color:
Gray – 50%
Collected
Article Author Color:
Lime
Date
of Article Color:
Light
Collected Article Color:
Sea Green
Collected
Sub-notes Color:
Indigo
Personal
Notes Color:
Black
Personal
Comments Color:
Brown
Personal
Sub-notes Color:
Blue - Gray
Collected
Article Highlight Color:
Collected
Article Highlight Color:
Lavender
Collected
Article Highlight Color:
Aqua
Collected
Article Highlight Color:
Pale Blue
Personal
Notes Highlight Color:
Gold
Personal
Notes Highlight Color:
Tan
HTML Color:
Blue
Vocabulary Color:
Violet
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
A
Brief Word on Copyright
Many of
the articles whose educational copies are given below are copyrighted by their
respective authors as well as the respective publishers. Some contain messages
of warning, as follows:
Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are
expressly prohibited
without the written consent of “so and so”.
According
to the concept of “fair use” in US copyright Law,
The reproduction,
redistribution and/or exploitation of any materials and/or content (data, text,
images, marks or logos) for personal or commercial gain is
not permitted. Provided the source is
cited, personal, educational and non-commercial use (as
defined by fair use in US copyright law) is permitted.
Moreover,
I
believe that satisfies the conditions for copyright and non-plagiarism.
References
Some of
the links may not be active (de-activated) due to various reasons, like removal of the
concerned information from the source database. So an educational copy is also
provided, along with the link.
If the
link is active, do cross-check/validate/confirm the educational copy of the
article provided along.
References
IANS. (Monday, August 18, 2003) Majority of Chennai girls
suffer sexual abuse: Study.
Alissa J. Rubin. (Thursday,
May 01, 2003)
Hotz, Robert Lee. (Friday, November 08, 2002) Neuroscientists Mine the Depths of Emotions.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-shame8nov08,0,3510231.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dtodays%2Dtimes
Nader, Carol. (Wednesday,
October 22, 2003) Stigma, fear leave
mentally ill jobless.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/21/1066631425493.html?from=storyrhs
Robinson, Paul. (Wednesday, June 25, 2003) Workplace bullying on rise: survey.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/24/1056449241796.html
NHRC
Chairperson decries the state of mental health in the country. (July, 2003)
http://www.nhrc.nic.in/news_let_Jul2003.htm
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_4.html
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Educational Copy of Some of the References
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Reference
IANS. (Monday, August 18, 2003) Majority of Chennai girls
suffer sexual abuse: Study.
Monday August 18 2003 10:53 IST
Majority of Chennai girls suffer sexual abuse: Study
IANS
CHENNAI: About 74 percent of college-going girls in
Chennai have suffered some form of sexual abuse from the age of 10 or even
earlier, a study presented at a meeting of psychiatrists and psychologists here
says.
Maya R, presenting her research paper on sexual
abuse, said her findings had shown the highest number incidents involved
violators unknown to the victim.
The startling statistics of the "incidents and
patterns of sexual abuse among female college students" was revealed
before a large audience of psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and counsellors from across the world attending a regional
conference of the Association for Psychological Counselling.
However, only one percent of the cases involved
rape, and usually this was by someone known to the victim. As
many as 23 percent of the girls in the study had experienced some form of abuse
as children.
The study was based on a survey of 147 girls from
three colleges in Chennai.
Case studies were presented at the meeting of how counselling had helped girls overcome such trauma and go
forward in life.
But B.J. Prashantham,
chairman of the Association for Psychological Counselling,
noted there were only 3,500 qualified psychiatrists in
"There is an urgent need in
Prashantham heads a Vellore-based
NGO, Christian Counselling Centre, which has so far
trained 30,000 counsellors from 25 countries.
Shanthi Arulampalam
from Sri Lanka, associated with an NGO called Survivor, discussed the role of counselling as an instrument of change.
Giving examples of intervention, she talked of
responses from young men and women in her strife-torn island nation who had
been widowed, maimed and traumatised by violence. Counselling and guidance had helped rehabilitate hundreds,
she said.
The issue of weaning away young people from working
as sex workers, bringing in considerable amounts of money and food for their
destitute families, was a major ethical problem confronted by counsellors like her, she said.
The problems counsellors
faced in dealing with people suffering from HIV/AIDS patient were also
discussed, with speakers dwelling on issues like whether patients should be
persuaded to disclose their illness to family members and to employers.
Hospital counsellors
revealed that corporate houses like airlines companies often wanted doctors to
tell them the "medical status of patients" who were employed by them.
Referring to the aim of arranging the meeting, Prashantham said: "The objective of such a
get-together is to network various NGOs that have for long worked in isolation.
Now there is an urgent need to bring them together, to evolve common strategies
and decide on levels of intervention.
"In
(Reference: IANS. (Monday,
August 18, 2003)
Majority
of Chennai girls suffer sexual abuse: Study.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Reference
Alissa J. Rubin. (Thursday,
May 01, 2003)
May
1, 2003
Photos
The unseen
(Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Damaged
(Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Lost souls
(Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Retreat
(Carolyn Cole / LAT)
AFTER THE WAR
Iraq's only
psychiatric hospital, stormed by looters, provides a miserable refuge.
By Alissa J. Rubin, Times
Staff Writer
BAGHDAD — Swathed in a dirty gray blanket, the sores
on her feet thick with flies, the young woman lay motionless on the concrete floor
of the women's ward in the only psychiatric hospital in
Sometimes she cried — a low hoarse sound that seemed
to come from the back of her throat — and the flies would rise in a cloud, only
to settle again.
Her companions in the sun-burnt yard paid no
attention. They were watching for the arrival of a rare vat of clean drinking
water, clasping their cups close to their bodies as if afraid someone would
steal them.
Conditions were never good at this hospital in an
impoverished corner of
The Al Rashid Psychiatric Hospital had about 1,400
patients before the war. But after looters broke the gates, most of the
patients fled and are believed to be wandering
Looters rampaged through the hospital a few days after
Baghdad fell, stripping it of every stick of furniture, its toilets, light
fixtures, medicines and, most precious, the motor for its water-treatment
plant, leaving patients thirsty and dirty.
Worst of all, the looters sexually assaulted three
female patients — an act doubly brutal in a Muslim society in which intimate
relations with anyone other than a spouse is a crime punishable by death and
brings lasting shame to the victim's family.
Sudaw Audaw,
27, a gentle-faced nurse, tried to articulate the feelings of guilt and
hopelessness that besiege her and many of the female staff members.
"I wanted to run away, but I
didn't know where to go," said Audaw, who stayed at the
hospital through the war and the looting even though she had not been paid in
weeks.
"We lost control. We couldn't
protect the patients. One young lady was a virgin, and now, in the rape, she
has lost everything," said Audaw, who along with some
patients witnessed at least one of the rapes.
The environment is one of fear,
unimaginable filth and psychological chaos because the thieves took most of the hospital's
stores of antipsychotic medications and sedatives. Patients rave helplessly for
hours, if not days.
The International Committee of the Red Cross had
worked with the hospital for years, helping the institution set up a small
water-treatment plant so that patients would have adequate clean water. An ICRC
psychiatrist even came to work there. He left before the war started.
Repairing the damage will take months and cannot be
done without adequate funds, ICRC engineers said.
The Invisible Harm
The psychological damage will take far longer.
"The looting was disastrous in this
hospital," Nada Doumani, a spokeswoman for the
ICRC in
In the men's ward, some of the most disturbed
patients are terrified when they see anyone from outside the hospital. Wearing
soiled, sour-smelling blue- and green-striped flannel nightshirts that hang to
their knees, their lower legs bare and smeared with dirt or excrement, some of the men tremble as
hospital staff, engineers and reporters come in and out.
An older man with legs as thin as sticks and a gray stubble on his face closed his eyes and began to
chant — perhaps in an effort to ward off inner demons: "Our blood, our
soul, our souls for Saddam. Our blood, our soul, our souls
for Saddam."
He looked uncomprehendingly when a staff member tried
to explain that Saddam Hussein is gone.
Another man, Mohammed Hamid
Hussein, leaned against a wall in a soiled tweed jacket — unnecessary in the
hot spring sun but a rare personal possession that the looters had left behind.
Furtively, he tucked a packet of pills under his clothes.
When he realized that no one would take them from
him, he kissed them and held them out for a reporter to see.
It appeared that at least some of the
patients were political dissidents. Mohammed Abdul Sattar, an
assistant manager at the hospital, said that about 50 of the 650 male patients
before the war had been sent by the courts "because some of them had
attacked the government, and so the judges have them brought here to evaluate
whether they are a mental patient."
"I am here because of Saddam," said Karim Cobra, who described himself as a poet. "I'm not
from the Baath Party. I had some ideas of my
own."
The party, dominated by Hussein, was key to the leader's hold on power, and Cobra, whose family
supported the regime, was afraid that his independent ideas would get them in
trouble. "I came
here to get some rest," Cobra said.
Slowly it emerged that he was
imprisoned for his ideas, tortured with electrical prods and then was sent
here.
Could he leave now?
Yes, with the permission of the doctor and the
director, he said, but after 12 years here, the outside world seemed filled with
risks. Where would he live?
"I do not want to go back to my
family," he said.
Occasionally there are moments of normality, even
hope. Outside the tall iron gates of the men's ward, a short, sober
patient in a long brown robe tied at the waist, like a Franciscan monk's habit, surveyed the relative
freedom of the grassy central yard. After a moment he knelt by a large pink flowering
bush, picked a blossom and bent his head to smell its summer scent.
A woman, lacking a mirror as she combed and plaited
her hair, leaned this way and that to catch her reflection in jagged broken
glass that is all that is left of the windows.
But such incidents are rare.
For the most part, the women's ward seemed a land of
the lost. Some of the patients rushed up to strangers and kissed their hands, others lay in
the unrelenting sun of the yard, too disturbed, depressed or dehydrated to move.
Six metal bed frames stood in each dormitory room;
on them were soiled mattresses, too awful for even the thieves to steal. Some women lay curled in
the squalor; others fought, pulling one another's hair like children.
Some complained that they had not been able to wash.
The shower heads were stolen along with the light fixtures. With the latrines
overflowing, some women had defecated in the empty dining room.
The woman covered with flies and lying on the edge of
the yard could barely formulate words. Her name? Fatin. Her age? Thirty-one. Why is she in
the hospital? "My parents threw me here," she whispered hoarsely.
The Nightmare
For Alia, 40, and Kawata, 44, the looters turned this place, which for all
its limitations had offered them a bit of refuge, into a nightmare. Their
bodies were violated, and any shred of stability disintegrated.
Alia, a nervous woman, is a
lesbian, according to Musa Khazali,
32, one of a new group of religious leaders who now help run the hospital. Same-sex
relations are viewed at best as mental illness under Muslim law, he said.
Birdlike, Alia looked
nervously as strangers came and went. "We were sleeping when the looters
came. We said there is no food, but they wanted to kill us. They had knives,
and they hit us," she said. "I was scared. I started screaming, and
three jumped on me. There was black on their faces."
She covered her eyes with her hands. "I would
like to kill them," she said.
Kawata stood shyly at the entrance
to the women's yard, her shoulder-length dark hair well-brushed, her blue smock
mostly clean. "Nothing happened," she said as she stared straight ahead.
Unable to talk about the recent
violence to her body, she instead described other violence — it was unclear
whether it was real or imaginary.
"There were men carrying pipes and sticks and
guns and bombs. I saw tanks," she said, shaking her head as if to ward off
the memories. "If my brother comes, I will leave."
But her memories of home sound full of abuse as
well.
"My family hit me with hoses, sticks, slippers,
and I used to call for my mother, but she died of lung cancer when I was
young," Kawata said. "They hit
me because I sing. They said, 'Aren't you ashamed that you are singing?' "
Tears came to her eyes, she looked briefly out to
the yard beyond the hospital and then back toward the squalid women's ward.
For her, there was no shelter.
(Reference: Alissa J. Rubin. (Thursday,
May 01, 2003) Baghdad's Forgotten Souls Living in Fear and Filth.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Reference.
Hotz, Robert Lee. (Friday, November 08, 2002) Neuroscientists
Mine the Depths of Emotions.
November
8, 2002
Neuroscientists
Mine the Depths of Emotions
Researchers armed with new imaging techniques
present their latest insights into behavior.
By
Robert Lee Hotz, Times Staff Writer
ORLANDO,
Fla. -- With a new respect for the science of emotion,
researchers are charting the anatomy of social graces, capturing neural impulses of fairness and shame that guide behavior.
In
findings made public this week at a meeting of 24,000 neuroscientists in
Orlando, researchers documented how the primal mood circuits of the brain can color
manners, cooperation and judgment, even as scientists revealed a new
understanding of how the
human capacity for emotion changes over a lifetime.
By
focusing on the neural networks that drive feelings, scientists have embraced an
objective inquiry into the subjective, emotional life of the mind. Until
recently, scientists could make only educated guesses about the nature of the
emotional chords struck by joy or sadness.
New
noninvasive medical imaging techniques, however, allow scientists to plumb the
wellsprings of the mind more precisely. Recording the interplay of neural
patterns, they seek explanations for the subtle mood changes that influence our decisions and shape the way
we treat each other.
"There
has been a shift to looking for brain patterns," University of
In
their exploration of emotion, researchers at the annual meeting of the Society
for Neuroscience this week found:
Neural
circuits related to shame that help regulate social behavior.
Researchers at UC Berkeley reported that people with brain damage in a region just above the eyes, called the orbifrontal cortex, could not process the social cues that
help fine-tune manners. They persistently acted in an overly familiar manner,
telling inappropriate jokes or using off-color language.
An
upbeat side and a downbeat side of the brain. Positive attitudes lodge in the left side of the
prefrontal cortex, which is involved in complex reasoning and social awareness,
and negative attitudes congregate on the right, according to researchers at the National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Strokes who used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity.
Brain
circuits attuned to unfairness. Researchers at
Synapses
crafted for cooperation. People who
exchanged favors displayed heightened neural activity in areas involved in
processing rewards and detecting the intentions of others, researchers at
All
in all, it does not
take much for an emotional impulse to affect the way we think.
In a study of how even relatively mild emotions influence mental
abilities, cognitive neuroscientists at Washington University in St. Louis
found that brain areas critical for reasoning, intelligence and other types of
higher cognition were swayed by watching a horror film or a TV comedy for as
little as 10 minutes.
Published
this year in the Proceedings of the
After
viewing the clips, people took simple tests of memory and mental ability. Their
performance was helped or hindered depending on how their mood had been affected by the videos.
"Mild anxiety actually improved performance on some kinds of
difficult tasks, but hurt performance on others," said psychologist Jeremy Gray, who led the
research team.
It
doesn't take a scientist to know that feelings can run ahead of common sense, but now researchers are learning how emotions can trigger errors in judgment.
Researchers
at Bay Crest Center for Geriatric Care in Ontario, Canada, measured brain
activity in people looking at photos and documented how their emotion circuits responded
to a face faster than their memories about it could be retrieved.
That
helps explain the awkward situation in which people mistakenly hail as a friend
someone they have never met.
Despite
individual differences in the depth and intensity of emotional responses,
researchers are discovering the same emotional machinery in the very young and
the very old, according to new research by independent groups at the University
of Montreal in Canada and the University of South Carolina.
"The emotions are hard-wired in the brain and are present very
early," said
The brain's emotional circuitry, however, also appears to evolve
throughout life, research presented this
week suggests.
When 8- and 9-year-old girls were asked to watch sad film clips and
then suppress the sadness they evoked, 11 regions of their brains showed
increased neural activity, compared with only two regions in adults, the
Older people may appear to be less emotional than the young, but they
may feel things more intensely,
researchers said this week.
Even as physical measures of emotion, such as heart rate, decline with
age — tempered perhaps by time and experience
— older people still have a depth of feeling that had not been properly
appreciated.
"The brain mechanisms tend to be the same across a lifetime," said psychologist Donald Powell at the
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Gaia Vince
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Reference
Nader, Carol. (Wednesday,
October 22, 2003) Stigma, fear leave
mentally ill jobless.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/21/1066631425493.html?from=storyrhs
More
than 80 per cent of adults with a mental illness are unemployed because of the
stigma attached to their condition or the fear that their disease may be
exposed, a study has found.
The
survey of 1070 adults by the Mental Illness Fellowship
Caroline
Crosse, who has set up a program through the Mental Illness Fellowship that
aims to educate the corporate world, said the unemployment figures were
unacceptably high.
Ms
Crosse, manager of the Social Firm program, said many people concealed their mental illness from
their employer "because there is so much misunderstanding, that the
individual is concerned with repercussions".
She
said employers were probably
more receptive to people with tangible disabilities because it was easier to
adjust the work environment to suit their needs than to accommodate the needs
of the mentally ill.
People
suffering psychotic disabilities were often "on a tightrope and it's not
until there's a crash that the other co-workers find out that the person was
working really hard to keep things together".
She
said employers were also
concerned that a mentally ill employee might be unable to cope with the demands
of the job and be less productive.
The
clinical adviser to depression awareness group Beyond Blue, Ian Hickie, described the workplace as the "last frontier" of mental illness.
"While
we have an increasing acceptance that people with mental health problems may be
members of our family or local church or sport club, employers remain extremely reluctant to have
people with this kind of disability actively employed," Professor Hickie
said.
He
said when staff had physical health issues, employers "go out of their
way" to make sure they get help and return to work, but they had no qualms about sacking workers with
mental health problems.
The
survey also found that those with
mental illnesses often had difficulty with relationships in their private
lives. Fewer than a quarter of those interviewed had a partner,
40 per cent still lived with their parents or other relatives, and a third
lived alone. Only 13 per cent had children.
(Reference: Nader, Carol. (Wednesday,
October 22, 2003) Stigma,
fear leave mentally ill jobless.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Reference
Robinson, Paul. (Wednesday, June 25, 2003) Workplace bullying on rise: survey.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/24/1056449241796.html
"Bullying
occurs at all levels of the organisation and can
directly have an effect on the victim's health and wellbeing such as severe stress, anxiety, panic attacks, sleep
disturbance, depression, concentration difficulties and raised blood pressure," Mr Buckley said.
He
said people who experienced bullying behaviour needed
to send clear messages to the perpetrator and to senior management. If managers
were responsible, contacting a union or government agency was appropriate. He
suggested keeping a diary
to record incidents at work, including the names of people willing to support
claims.
(Reference: Robinson, Paul. (Wednesday,
June 25, 2003) Workplace
bullying on rise: survey.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Reference
NHRC
Chairperson decries the state of mental health in the country. (July, 2003)
http://www.nhrc.nic.in/news_let_Jul2003.htm
NHRC
Chairperson decries the state of mental health in the country
The
Chairperson of the Commission, Dr. Justice A.S. Anand
expressed serious concern over the fact that insufficient attention was being
paid to mental health concerns in the country. The Chairperson was speaking at
a seminar on the "Mental Health situation in Correctional and Custodial
Institutions" organized by SEVAC, an NGO, with the support of the NHRC, in
(Reference: NHRC Chairperson decries the
state of mental health in the country. (July, 2003)
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Reference
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_4.html
SPECIAL
TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Tuesday,
November 5, 2002
The
Army
psychologists and outside experts have been meeting to study Bin Laden's profile as part of a strategic campaign to garner support in the Middle East for the
"You really can't understand this destructive movement without understanding its leader," Jerrold Post, a leading psychological profiler for
the
[On
Monday,
Post,
director of the Political Psychology program at
The
profile being developed by Post and army psychologists portrays Bin Laden as a hypocrite
who poses as an Islamic
prophet. During a lecture last
month, Post portrayed Bin Laden as a sane and calculating leader who distorts Islamic principles and is
obsessed with the teachings of radical Muslim clerics. He said Al Qaida can easily be led by another should Bin Laden be killed or incapacitated.
"He
is a self-aggrandizing
distorter of the Koran," Post
said, "[The Koran says] fight
in the cause of God those who fight you,
but do not transgress limits, for God loves not the transgressor."
The
program seeks to understand Bin Laden to enable the army to launch
psychological operations against Bin Laden and Al Qaida.
The operations seek to undo the influence Bin Laden has wielded over young
Muslims throughout the Middle East and
"Strategic psychological operations are
important," Post said. "How do we delegitimize Osama Bin Laden as someone who corrupts Islam? This is a war of hearts and minds."
Maj.
Ken Gordon, in charge of the Regional Studies Detachment at 3rd
Battalion, 1st Special Warfare Training Group, said the military
will be sending troops into the
Gordon
said the aim is to build grassroots support among Muslims for
"One of the psychological operations objectives
is to attempt to modify the behavior and attitudes of a foreign target audience in support of
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Personal Note
"[The
Koran says] fight in
the cause of God those who
fight you, but do not transgress limits, for God loves not the transgressor."
15
And he said unto them, Ye are they
which justify yourselves before men;
but God knoweth your hearts:
for that which is highly
esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
- Luke 16:15 ::
King James Version (KJV)
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
http://in.geocities.com/anindiantantric/psychology.html
Published on internet: Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Revised: Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Information on the web site is given in good
faith about a certain spiritual way of life, irrespective of any specific
religion, in the belief that the information is not misused, misjudged or
misunderstood. Persons using this information for whatever purpose must rely on
their own skill, intelligence and judgment in its application. The webmaster
does not accept any liability for harm or damage resulting from advice given in
good faith on this website.
Back to An
Indian Tantric Homepage Index
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
“Thou belongest
to That Which Is
Undying, and not merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its muteness at last. “Thou art
eternal, and not merely
of the vanishing flesh. The soul in man cannot be killed, cannot die. It waits, shroud-wrapped,
in thy heart, as I waited,
sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For there is One within thee, as in all men, that comes and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!”
(Reference:
Brunton, Paul. (1962)
A
Search in Secret
Amen