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Dwapara Yuga - Teleports

Satellite teleports are permanent satellite uplink facilities located throughout the world. These teleports are facilities that are built for the purpose of maintaining high quality communications with orbiting satellites.

They're iconic of Dwapara Yuga, by nature transcending the barrier of distance.   This is done via signals rather than more exciting human teleporting of science fiction.

These coupled with portable devices can bring telephone, internet, video and general connectivity to even the most remote outposts of the world.

Teleportation of oneself and others is one of the siddhis and the principle is accepted in the lab, albeit on a small scale.

Dwapara Yuga - Ancient Aliens - landing for 3rd series

At the end of July, the third series of this popular history channel show began airing again.

The subject matter and much of the evidence portrayed in the show are fascinating although the analysis is always the same, the only explanation given is "well... the aliens did it!"

The Yugas similarly explain many of the same phenomena, without recourse to "aliens".    It would be closed minded to be dogmatic in these matters, rather to consider the evidence and take some of the material with a pinch of salt.   The author is a fan of Ockham's Razor, preferring the most simple explanations over more fantastical ones, although even fantastical ones have their place and almost always contain elements of truth -- for example almost anything named the "devil's this or that" is likely worth investigating.  The same logic applies to controversial religious leaders, have they truly done wrong, or does their mission provoke a backlash from reactionary or negative forces?

After all the status quo is for people to remain dormant seeds of their true selves, going through life working for others (typically more awakened but materialistic) , paying taxes and being exploited to greater or lesser degrees for their intellectual or physical labor, never really growing much spiritually, creatively or culturally.  Those who do have such growth are the Yogananda's, the Warhol's or the Bezos' of the world -- as Yogananda put it "architects of their own destinies."  Yogananda's own Autobiography is dedicated to a pioneer Agricultural businessman, Luther Burbank.

Obviously, any television program has a primary mission to entertain and be profitable, although much of that is achieved by the Greek presenter who resembles the front man of a 1980s hair band and delivers the "aliens did it" punchline with aplomb.   It's good to see the Swiss Erick Von Daniken too, although his own showmanship and willingness to change facts to meet his narrative lead to serving time for fraud and embezzlement in the past.  

One particularly interesting episode revisits Joseph Smith, a figure important to both the Mormon Church and Self Realization Fellowship (a very large percentage of the church's US founders were converts) proposing an audacious and interesting hybrid of prophets and "aliens".

The same episode details an 1897 UFO crash site near Fort Worth, TX (right at the dawn of Dwapara Yuga) that even has its own State of Texas historical marker.   Fort Worth is where the 1947 Roswell Crash remains were moved to and sitings continue to the present day.   The area develops the world's most advanced fighter jets and historically has tested many experimental aircraft and space vehicles, so conventional explanations are very likely for many.   Just in this past week Amazon.com's own space vehicle crashed in Texas.   Operation Paperclip in 1945 first brought Nazi scientists to Texas to develop military and later commercial technologies so even the most fantastical conspiracy theories have grains of truth.

The area is regularly overflown by all varieties of helicopters, black or otherwise.   Much wealth was created in the 1960s and 1970s especially during the Vietnam War when the helicopter replaced the trucks of the WWII and Korean eras.

Dwapara Yuga - The Musical Structure of Plato's Dialogues

J. B. Kennedy argues in a new book (unfortunately a rather expensive one that doesn't allow searching inside) that Plato's dialogues have an unsuspected musical structure and use symbols to encode Pythagorean doctrines. 


"The followers of Pythagoras famously thought that the cosmos had a hidden musical structure and that wise philosophers would be able to hear this harmony of the spheres. Kennedy shows that Plato gave his dialogues a similar, hidden musical structure. He divided each dialogue into twelve parts and inserted symbols at each twelfth to mark a musical note. These passages are relatively harmonious or dissonant, and so traverse the ups and downs of a known musical scale. Many of Plato's ancient followers insisted that Plato used symbols to conceal his own views within the dialogues, but modern scholars have denied this. Kennedy, an expert in Pythagorean mathematics and music theory, now shows that Plato's dialogues do contain a system of symbols. Scholars in the humanities, without knowledge of obsolete Greek mathematics, would not have been able to detect these musical patterns. This book begins with a concise and accessible introduction to Plato's symbolic schemes and the role of allegory in ancient times. The following chapters then annotate the musical symbols in two of Plato's most popular dialogues, the Symposium and Euthyphro, and show that Plato used the musical scale as an outline for structuring his narratives."

The book was announced to great fanfare a year ago but the write ups then and blurb above don't really reveal much other than that the Greeks shared something of the capacity to write at several levels simultaneously with the Old Testament Prophets and India's Rishis.


The text is valuable in setting a context for the ancient mind where little was revealed openly since heretical beliefs then as now could be dangerous and the expectation was that an apt student would have something of a 'mental decoder ring'.    For the kinds of crazy hair scientist one sees on cable TV making wild assertions, smoking guns will continue to remain elusive yet the 'GSR' (gun shot residue) of subtle clues are nevertheless very real.

Dwapara Yuga - Scamper technique

Several years ago, the author remembers being introduced to de Bono's classic book on lateral thinking.

Flash forward to this year and the recent DNA of Innovation book, mentioned in the last post.

Within it, a well known consulting technique is detailed - known by the acronym SCAMPER.   A product or idea can be reformulated along the following lines -

• Substitute: What elements of this product or service can we substitute?
• Combine: How can we combine this with other products or services?
• Adapt: What idea from elsewhere can we alter or adapt?
• Maximize or minimize: How can we greatly enlarge or greatly reduce any component?
• Put to other use: What completely different use can we have for our product?
• Eliminate: What elements of the product or service can be eliminated?
• Rearrange or reverse: How can we rearrange the product or reverse the process?

The SCAMPER technique is a wonderful metaphor for the higher ages, creative, expansive and a great antidote to the tedious, constrictive and traditional (lack of) thinking of Kali Yuga - the "comme il faut" type of idea, not what is best, rather what has always been done.

The picture is from the House of (so-called) Lords in England, a Kali Yuga hold over from the courtly consigliere of the Middle Ages, today largely about playing dress up under a great deal of pomp and circumstance while citizens riot in the streets... "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!"

In the French Revolution, upon hearing that  peasants had no bread to eat, the Queen replied well let them eat cake instead, a perhaps allegorical story that captures well ossified thinking and an inability to turn around ideas or situations).

Aside on recorded music - a potted history of product development

In the depth of Kali Yuga, it was thought impossible to capture music on paper, although it was known to have been done as recently as the with the Greeks.   As the age ascended, notation began and progressively improved.    Old European monasteries contain early examples that are quite charming and beautiful, resembling the colorful  music lessons given today in early education.

The harpsichord, a relatively inexpressive instrument became the piano, able to play loudly and softly as its full name in Italian implies, later the player piano able to read special scores and in recent decades became the synthesizer able to express the sound of any instrument and exactly capture every nuance using MIDI.   

In terms of technique itself,  how-to YouTube videos and tab/chord sites abound for popular songs.   In a generation, rights of passage like being able to play some or all of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" (or "Brothers" by Swami Kriyananda according to taste/background) have become accessible to anyone with an interest in doing so, although the truly musically talented drawing on past lives are able to pick up an instrument they've never seen before and play it and most music purely by ear, even having heard it only once, or in part before.

In terms of recording, over the last century, we have moved from analog drums (used for recording Yogananda's voice, for example), to analogue disks (78s, 45s, LPs, 12"), to cassette tapes, to digital tapes, to digital CD, SACD, DVD, BluRay and in the most recent times disk-based storage using FLAC, Apple Lossless and Windows Media 9 Lossless that do not lose detail in recordings as earlier formats such as MP3 did (even at high kbps).

Essentially all music is available to everyone, everywhere today, the only parameters being the quality (most downloads are not lossless, often an unwitting trade-off of size/download time against quality since lossless storage takes up more space) and legal rights of use.