IN SEARCH of the GREAT UNKNOWN SOMETHING

Dedicated to Teachings of the

Catholic Church

To the Ramakrishna Mission in Calcutta

To the Teachings of

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

and the Teachings of

Swami Vivekananda

Russia, a Magnificent Culture and Astonishing History

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Time to start developing a theme for the web page title - which is bold in its claims, I will admit. But ever since age 14 when I went to Chicago (from St. Louis, via the train, which not only ran more or less, on time, but passenger trains were wide-spread in use in those days, and as a side activity (though sometimes I think this WAS the actual purpose of the trip (to see for myself the ''boogie man''a  troupe - ie., a group of actors, or dancers, etc, performers for an audience) saw LIVE, a genuine Russian Ballet tour group, Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovsky Ballet, ofcourse, and then afterwords I went to see for myself the bus which had brought these dancers and support from - a confinement cell? to prevent escape to freedom?  I didn't get that impression, folks.  It must have been that I was ONE OF THEM because when I waved at these Russian (Soviet) visitors - they waved back as though I was something special.  It must of been they thought YOU ARE ONE OF US! I don't know.  But for sure I knew they were human beings, somewhat similar to myself, and they had a talent I could only wish I had been capable of developing such style.  I guess what I remember most from that trip, wasn't being psychoanalized by the renoun Dr. Anthony, but a particular, Russian special so to speak, when I think Russia, I seem always to go back to here, that night in Chicago. Alexander Kalinin i Russian Dance 'Trepak' The Nutcracker   [ music only ]  From youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiiuN9eAy9Y&pp=ygUgcnVzc2lhbiBkYW5jZSB0cmVwYWsgbnV0Y3JhY2tlciA%3D    

 

AlexanderKalininRussianDanceTrepakNutcracker

https://thevaccine.net/Russia/Alexander Kalinin Russian Dance 'Trepak 'Nutcracker.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiiuN9eAy9Y&pp=ygUgcnVzc2lhbiBkYW5jZSB0cmVwYWsgbnV0Y3JhY2tlciA%3D

Oh, by the way, read this on the youtube link given,
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Tropak or trepak is a traditional Ukrainian folk dance that spread throughout the Russian Empire. The tropak shares many musical and choreographic characteristics with the better known hopak. Both developed as Cossack social dances, performed at celebratory occasions.

Choreography [ The art of creating and arranging dances or ballets ] By Alex Kalinin. He was born in Moscow, Russia and began his dancing career at the age of four with his father. He graduated from the prestigious [indeed it is, {nc} Bolshoi Ballet Academy of Moscow. He has performed and toured as a soloist in over sixty countries with the most prestigious dance companies in the former Soviet Union. After immigrating to the United States in 1981, Mr. Kalinin has performed on stages from New York to Los Vegas, Reno, Australia and throughout Southern California. He has taught dance for over twenty-five years in US as well as abroad. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Kalinin Dance Company.

Go to the youtube.com link for this " Russian dance trepak nutcracker " and look down along the right side-bar and appreciate the high cultural level of both Russia and Ukraine - just in this area of Ballet. Ever wonder what provoked the German SS military to ravage and destroy so much of Ukraine culture, architecture and so forth, and then on into Russia and continue the process, including destroying the home of Leo Tolstoy ---> intentially, with MALACE to all Ukrainians and Russians?

I will tell you from a source (I was told this some fifty years plus ago, by a person in a small apartment in Greenwhich Village, Manhattan) who was working at the time directly in the home office in Berlin of the German Foreign Ministry under von Ribbentrop - (i.e., specifically NAZI Government - the distinction being that the German Army never as policy took it upon themselves such barbaric slaughter of innocent civilians and property and never did the German people - those who knew or suspicioned such cruelty condone or give support to such cruel treatment of innocents. I do not recall any WW-II history books that associate the names of such magnificant (military wise, as soldier) generals and Field Marshalls as Manstein, (one of their finest, if not finest of Germany's top generals/Field Marshalls) Gudarean, Rommel, etc., with such despicable conduct as that performed by SS on innocents in Poland, Soviet Union, Hungry and many other countries in the European sector.

 

According to Chinese teaching, the longest journey begins with the first step. I want to start this journey into Russian history, it's past, on a sad note.  Because if there is anything that describes Russian history it is in the PATHOS, in a word, the sorrows in their history. And I want to work my way from the present - history now in the making - because the philosophers have often said, ''Those who cannot remember the past are condemmed to repeat it.''

 

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Santayana is often credited with being the originator of the saying that the past repeats itself, that history is cyclic.  The fact is that this idea was expressed by Thucydides during his writing of the history of the the Peloponnesian War.

"The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world. The war remained undecided for a long time, until the decisive intervention of the Persian Empire in support of Sparta. Wikipedia

''I shall be content if those shall pronounce my history useful who desire to give a view of events as they really did happen, and as they are very likely in accordance with human nature, to repeat themselves as some future time, if not exactly the same, yet very similar. Thucydides''History I.I.2

So in ancient times wrote Thucydides, who gave the world the concept of a cyclic design in history, who contended that as man remained unchanged in his nature – his acts would tend to be similar.

History was for him (Thucydides) therefore, not merely the accurate record of past events for the delectation of the curious, but a great teacher who could not only explain the past but, in some degree, foretell the future. by Prof. F.F. Liu, quoted in his book, A Military History of Modern China, 1924-1949, see pg. 271 EPILOGUE: PORTQAL TO THE FUTURE.

 

This video is Rev 0, first attempt at and I want to tell the introduction and the basic film in terms of Ivan's song (what he sings) and then take short segments and put the film together and then for moments when out of the dispair comes victory, such as Battle of Borodino, technically a defeat but effectively a turning of the tide by willing sacrifice and lead in with the pathos in Tchaikovsky's opening movements and then the wake up moment and then afer a while finish off with his final movements in 1812,  for WW2, lead in with xxxxx   and just for fun   Ravi Shankar, Improvisations   [ To understand the the Apu Triology is to understand India and to come to understand much about ourself ]  

. . .  He wants to know, "are you sure you want to take this on? Ivan ?    I think so.  It would be a new learning experience and allow some artistic touches some of which when I gave up painting over 40 years ago - I may have lost.

Mother Russia, do not weep for me , 

the video portions do not show when going through the browsers, evidently.

" [2023-oct-24 for reasons I do not know yet, the video portion of these mp4 videos where I have inserted pictures, visual effects, etc does not play on the various browsers. The audio is fine except for some noise at the very start, easy enough to remove.  Such as Chrome, Foxfire, etc. But they view just fine if I load using VLC media, directly.  Tells me that perhaps the Browser is the problem.  I will keep on working on debug the problem as time allows.  Meanwhile, I can tell you that that this MOVIE, is one of the really GREAT films and especially as deals with WAR and what it does to people's lives.  It is also, in my opinion, a Masterpiece of film Direction, on par with India's great Styajit Ray and his The Apu Triology (Criterion Collection)

note - good use of style = copy & paste later

This was home, Ivan. This is war.

I bought last night on Amazon.com At that time there were just 13 left. 

. . . Now listen. At 51 seconds you will see the video clips starting wth the boy Ivan (12) and presumably his mother, looking down a long well.  The video program you ought to use is the VLC as it has the necessary encoders to show the videos.  If you use "Real Player" you will hear the music and singing but not see the videos.  There is long pause at 3m 58 the eerys song begins again.  then the mystical singing begins again.  At 8m 20 is SS, here to finish the job. Ivan weeps if not for himelf, then for whom?  Total length is 16m 44s  Remember, this video is just experimental, learning how to put together ''film'' splices and what-nots to be able to tell a story.  The learning curve on this software is about as steep as climbing Mt. Everest.  At 720 there is another pause because we are going into the third clip. In this clip you will see the SS, Ivan crying (but why) the President, the Nation's flag, the Great Seal of The Russian Federation... I'll survive  [remember, I have a lot of cleanup, etc. this is only draft to see if I have the basic process down correctly. First learn to finger paint then bring out the sable brushes for the fine details]

I'll provide the English translation of the poety tomorrow (today, now 3:45 sleep not until I am finished) Ivan sings with such real feelings. Why? Why is he so sad, so mournful, so much sorrow.

 

In do not weep for me video the first transition to another photo begins exactly at 8:18 minutes.  And you recognize the tall man SS, look at the driver in the car emblem on the, I guess it is called lapel.  And you see the destruction?  what I said earlier on the top of the index page, to be moved over to this page soon.  Ivan is all about the destruction of children in war.  Little Ivan exemplifies what war really does to children such as him (12).  [exemplify, to show, to illustrate by example]

Do you know where the "... do not weep for me, I'll survive" comes from?  I'll tell you a small bit.  It is from a book I read in 1995.  A large book.  Way too big to remember many details.  It's author was all the rage back then. And today, the President himself holds this author in very high regard. 

A Kopek for you if you can identiy where I got the title, phrase, ''Do not weep for me, I;ll survive''

 

 

 

 

Owen Mac,  I Will Always Have an Irish Heart

 

 

 

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The Teachings of Swamiji Vivekananda

 

 

 

 

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2023-april-19 The next page link is being corected.

Fr. John Corapi, STD The New Catechism of the Catholic Church as Commissioned by Pope John Paul II and Created Under the Direction of Cardinal Ratzinger, Later Pope Bennedict XVI

 

 

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https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/23073-cerebral-cortex 

Add about reticular activating system and effect of pot, depression, schitzoid and schizophrenic behavoir. and the wake-up effect of ritalin, LSD, etc. by the RAS. At least it seems to explain some of it from personal experimentation. Relate how just half of a very stong joint from Columbia brick seriously impared my ability to do the higher level mathematics such as the differential equations course and almost required my changing major to something less academically demanding. This was my sophmore year.

During freshman years I had made the Dean's List, twice I believe it was. My experimenting with strong pot from Columbia, just one time (during my college years) almost wrecked my plans on becoming an electrical engineer.  Perhaps Elon Musk can handle pot and still fly to the moon on one of his rockets.  But my guess is that if he was really smoking pot when I saw him on the television - then it was proably weak local grown grass (pot) not worth the bother, frankly.  With really good stuff - the joint you roll will be thin and tight.  And you wiil do good to get half-way through it before you are ready to do your launch.  And what ever he was actually smoking it wasn't good weed because it created TOO much smoke.  A good joint will not produce the cloud I saw surround his head that time on TV.

With LSD (purple microdots were the best} in the 1980s it was quite the opposite experience.  LSD seems to me, at least experimentally, to have no kinship with amphetamines.  It may chemically, pharmaceutically, but related but I don't think so. With LSD the initial experience is the most expanding.  But then with more and more you build up a tolerance and then you search for that first glorious trip.  But I think that good and pure, not contaminated, LSD has some remarkable psychiatric treatment properties. By the time I took my first trip (and I did take all necessary precautions such as putting the guns in the far barn and locking the gates) I had reached a state where I could not function and was at risk of not being able to do my job.  I had been smoking strong pot day in and day out. I had lost all motivation. I could not longer organize my thoughts. Time was now distorted continuously.  Ability to do abstract reasoning and thus my job -had left me.  I saw in myself what was happening to me.  But I could not stop.

Before I took the purple microdots I set up my artist easel and got out the pigments and the brush.  I would record the event, whatever it was to be, for my own history book.  I was to open my own Doors of Perception as Aldous Huxley had done with mescaline, the better part of Peyote, a cactus.

<aside> You know, as a young teen I had read of William Blake, who was artist and poet.  Some of the books said he was schizophrenic because of his sometimes bizarre art and poetical work.  I don't really know.  I do know that after I came to USA and started attending the school (I had NO prior education, could not read, write, not even write or spell my name, whatever the one I was asked to chose.  In school I could not funcitoni. I was then almost nine. I was then tested and tested and tested. Ruth was a psychiatric social worker involved in research at the Payne Whitney Hospital.  Janey (Mary Jane Sherfey) was a medical psychiatrist, also involved in research. And one of them I was to chose to be my official mother.  So, naturally test they did. And I was first labeled as being educationally mentally retarded.  But then, and on into when I was 13-14, I would hear voices, I would hear my name being called, Nenad, Nenad.  Thus, once again, test, test, test.  Yes, I was withdrawn, preferring not to be around people. But, if you have been hit from time to time as I was in the camps by one of the adults, you will acquire an aversion to adults - you will flintch and pull away when a person comes close, draws his hand near to your face. </aside>

''Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic mental disorder that affects the way an individual acts, thinks, expresses feelings, gets real, and relates to some other things. Even though schizophrenia is not common as some other major mental diseases, it might be the most disabling and chronic. Individuals having schizophrenia sometimes have problems doing well at work, in society, at school, and also in relationships. They might have the feeling of being withdrawn and frightened and can appear to have no interaction with reality.''  https://betahealthy.com/what-do-you-want-to-know-about-schizophrenia-symptoms-causes-types-diagnosis-treatment-outlook/ 

Yes, true that is.  But if they appear to be ''numb'' to personal relationships, deprived of the power to feel or move normally; benumbed; emotionally unresponsive; indifferent to death or suffering - it is just that - they appear to be ''numb'' to their world, a world that those fortunate enough to have been spared of wars reality will never know and thus may never understand what this "numbess" that so many saw in the people who survived from the truth of war: the peoples of Soviet Union, China, Japan, Poland, Serbia, Philippines, so many places, so many that we should not rememer.

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Video credits: From youtube.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3wWGvR2mFs = Only the dead have seen the END of WAR, by 3nohzion TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-yIf1huef8&t=6207s = Drums of War Epic Drum and Percussion Music, by Dark Sonic

Video editing software by NCH Software, https://www.nchsoftware.com  Using VideoPad. For audio editing I used WavePadSound Editor. Product experience with this Australian company, greater than 15 years. 100% satisfied.

Note: Drums of War replaced into video as I felt that Drums of War music better expressed the horror of war, and especially what it does to children.

Video & audio editing and necessary web coding by Nenad Cuic of the Kingdom of Serbia. Also, this block, this 'div" will be moved to my 'blogging page, now being developed and to be called 'On Freud's Couch in Repose''

 

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The voice that I would hear calling me was, I am certain, was that of my mother, Radja.  She was living in Garden City and teaching at St. Mary's School for Girls.  I was living in St. Louis County with Ruth, a very kind person.  The lonliness that I felt was real.  I cannot deny it. Even today that echo of the past, and the lonliness returns when I think about it.  I was never schizophrenic, never mentally educationally retarded.  I was the child of a great war. And I was one of the lucky ones. 

 

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Mazurka Dabrowskiego   (This is really one neat song, anthem. It tells you that the Poles have a lot of fight in them and won't take BS from anyone no matter how big.)

a really great sounding song

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Go Poland, You won last year - You Can Do It Again

Poland Wins Again

 

Poland Beat the Russkies Today

Tomorrow is Another Day

Serbia Yesterday, Serbia Today, Serbia Tomorrow

 

When at First You Don't Succeed

Try Try Again

GO CROATIA

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blogit up bove

(2023-Jan-25) A Flight to the Past

2021-July-04 - AT WHAT PRICE CAPITULATION!

 

Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?

 

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not like what you have to say - that may not like your opinions on this or that. Even Emily Dickinson had her share of finger-pointers. If you have read some of her poetry you would not think that could be. 

 

I find Adolf Hitlers paintings and sketches quite good, in fact I think some of them are really nice. His sketches and paintings are similar in many ways to the works of Utrillo. Go google or duckduckgo Utrillo,

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=utrillo+paintings&t=chromentp&atb=v344-1&ia=weband

 

Then checkout Hitler's art work.

 

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hitler+paintings&t=chromentp&atb=v344-1&ia=web

 

 

 

I find Utrillo's work nice. But nothing mystical. I find Hitler's landscapes beautiful in a mystical sense. Almost enchanting. I think for sure that a British Gainsboro or Turner is clearly magnificant art. In fact, in 100 years from now, history may well say that Britain's finest hour was proably the time of Gainsboro, Turner, Shakespeare, etc., but that for the 20th and early 21 century it lost its grandure and turned to mush. 

 

If you want to psychoanalize me through my art (I hope never through what I write as it is not only grammatically incorrect - but I never know whether I am serious or not - perhaps now emerging dementia, perhaps in my childhood - emotionally unstable in a sort of way.

 

My favorite master of the landscape artist has to be Meindert Hobbema, (1638 - 1709). The original is in the London National Gallery. I think that alone is sufficient reason for Vladimir Vladimirovich to NOT Nuke London (as Col Douglas Macgreggor has alluded to that this might well happen if Biden/NATO push too far). Aim Satan II at Liverwust if you must. Cook them in Satan II's giant microwave - but leave London alone.

10/23/2023 I still think that if VP decides to NUKE France and great Britain, he should spare Paris and London as both these cities have the finest art museums in the world, and I think without argument, the Louvre being the first among equals.  So, from the need to preserve The Greatness that was (if VP nukes them) in Man when he is behaving at his best - that is sufficient justification to NOT nuke Paris or London and for the very same reason, give NYC a pass and if you must nuke Manhattan (why a nuke any any other part of NYC, for what they are worth, and too waste a good Satan II).  That will allow future survivors, mutants though they may well be, to at least see for themselves what the better side of mankind was able to do when they behaved in more logical ways.

 

 

 

 

The Guggenheim's architect was of course, Frank Lloyd Wright. When I think of Frank Lloyd I think of Hitler. No joke. Because Hitler aspired to be a great architect but would have made a better architect designing government buildings which you find all over Washington DC and indeed most of them need a good washing as the polution in DC is really bad. Mostly coming from the halls of congress and the White Man's house over on Pennsylvannia avenue. 

The Guggenheim is very close to where I lived when I was 12, 12 E. 97st, between Madison and 5th. Many a time while it was being built, in the late evening I would crawl in through the "sidewalk inspector's enterance" to see how the thing was being built. If you like flying saucers - you will like the Guggenheim. You will have to go visit it to see what I mean.  Just take the 5th ave buss up toward Harlem from the Metropolitan.

10/23/2023 NOTE to VP. The Guggenheim ain't a worth saving unless you think dumping buckets of paint on canvas is "fine art." You guys and Nikita had it right in the '50s - this "modern" art is crap art belong to the imperialist dogs and their lackey followers in NATO

 

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The story of Steven Anthony Colman {182 pgs, pdf) formerly Kálmán István

This story is absolutely amazing.  Steve Colman (Kálmán István) was a Hungarian jew.

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Not a total hit counter but counts only total of new arrivals

470 on 04_19_2023 777 on 05_09_2023 01174 081523. 1245 TOTAL INITIAL NEW VISITORS on 2023_Aug_27 new visits only count

2023_Oct_13_12.40am_total of new visitors, one time count only is 2066 from start at 470 on April 19, 23 to today rise is 339.6% increase or 339.6% ^ over six months. Calculation using HP 11C

From April 4 count to Aug 27 is a 164% increase using HP 11C

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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6

2023-Oct_9 There are no red error flags on the index pg, 1690 lines of code. BU made