SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE – HIMALAYAN BLUNDER: Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang signed The Border Defense Cooperation Agreement(BDCA) on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 in Beijing. India and China do not have an internationally recognized common border between the two countries. India’s neighbor Tibet which shares a border with India has not signed this BDCA Agreement,SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE – HIMALAYAN BLUNDER: Indian Prime Minister met with People’s Republic of China’s President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, October 23, 2013. Both India, and China very clearly understand that the military occupation of Tibet poses security concerns and the Border Defense Cooperation Agreement(BDCA) that they signed is not valid under international law. They have no legal rights to compromise the territorial integrity of Tibet, a sovereign nation under illegal occupation since 1950.SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE – HIMALAYAN BLUNDER: Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh signed a bilateral Border Defense Cooperation Agreement with People’s Republic of China during his most three-day visit to Beijing from October 22, to October 24, 2013. This allows China to exercise control over Indian territory along the entire length of India’s Himalayan Frontier without even fighting a war. Dr. Manmohan Singh must be held accountable for this act of high treason and for giving aid and comfort to India’s enemy who had already illegally occupied Indian territory in Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India had visited People’s Republic of China on a three-day visit from Tuesday, October 22, to Thursday, October 24, 2013. On Wednesday, October 23, Indian Prime Minister and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang had entered into an agreement called The Border Defence Cooperation Agreement(BDCA)for border management while India has no recognized or official border with People’s Republic of China. Six months back, during the month of April 2013, Chinese troops intruded into Indian territory of Depsang Sector, Ladakh Province of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. India has substantial trade and commerce relationship with China and their bilateral trade rose to $66 billion during 2012. It is claimed that not a shot was fired along the entire Himalayan frontier since 1975. The BDCA may promote an increase in bilateral trade but at the same time it permits China to exercise control on Indian territory along its entire Himalayan frontier without even fighting a war. At a fundamental level, BDCA is not a legitimate agreement as India has not recognized that it shares a common border with People’s Republic of China. Secondly, BDCA may give some legitimacy to Communist China’s illegal occupation of Tibet. In my opinion, BDCA is not a valid agreement and Indian Parliament may not even ratify this bilateral agreement in which Tibet has no representation. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh must be held accountable for this act of high treason and for giving aid and comfort to India’s enemy who had illegally occupied Tibet, apart from occupying Indian territory in Ladakh Sector.
SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE – HIMALAYAN BLUNDER: Just six months ago, People’s Republic of China intruded into Depsang Sector(Daulat Beg Oldi) of Ladakh Province. China had already occupied the area known as Aksai Chin and the dispute is not yet settled. The Border Defence Cooperation Agreement(BDCA) signed on October 23, 2013 is not a valid, or legitimate Agreement. Indian Parliament may refuse to ratify this Agreement.SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE – HIMALAYAN BLUNDER: Indian Prime Minister signed an agreement with Chinese Prime Minister on October 23, 2013 to come to an understanding to control the Himalayan Frontier and avoid military conflict. This Border Defence Cooperation Agreement(BDCA) has given away Indian territory to China without the need to fight a war. BDCA seriously undermines India’s ability to defend its territory while China still claims India’s North East Frontier Agency or Arunachal Pradesh as its territory. The fact is, India and China do not share a common border. India cannot give legitimacy to China’s military occupation of Tibet.
I am pleased to share an article published by Ravindra Narayan Ravi, former Special Director, India’s Intelligence Bureau who had worked for nearly two decades on the military threat posed by China’s illegal occupation of Tibet. I thank him for speaking on this issue and exposing the fraud without any sense of fear. In the past, I had worked with Intelligence Bureau(Research and Analysis Wing/RAW), and it was a pleasure to patrol along the Lohit River in North East Frontier Agency which is named Arunachal Pradesh. It is the sector where India is particularly strong and had valiantly resisted Chinese aggression during the 1962 War. It is indeed very shocking and makes me sad to read that India is giving away territory on a silver plate. It is a serious insult to the memory of our fallen soldiers who gave their precious lives, and Lohit River bears witness to that sacrifice. At Walong War Memorial, the following tribute was paid by Deputy Commissioner Bernard S Dougal:
SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE – HIMALAYAN BLUNDER: Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has insulted the memory of Indian soldiers who had valiantly resisted Communist China’s aggression across the Himalayan Frontier during October-November 1962. This War Memorial was erected in Walong, Anjaw District, Arunachal Pradesh to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers.
The sentinel hills that round us stand Bear witness that we loved our Land; Amidst shattered rocks and flaming pine, We fought and died on Namti Plain. O’ Lohit gently by us glide, Pale stars above us softly shine, As we sleep here in Sun and rain.
SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE – HIMALAYAN BLUNDER: I served in Special Frontier Force, a military organization that was created during November 1962 as a military alliance/pact between India, Tibet, and the United States. During 1972, I had served in Anjaw District, Arunachal Pradesh and had visited Namtifield or Namti Plains where Indian Army had valiantly resisted People’s Liberation Army of Communist China during the 1962 War.
R. Rudra Narasimham, B.Sc., M.B.B.S., Personal Numbers:MS-8466/MR-03277K. Rank:Lieutenant/Captain/Major. Branch:Army Medical Corps/Short Service Regular Commission(1969-1972); Direct Permanent Commission(1973-1984). Designation:Medical Officer. Unit:Establishment No.22(1971-1974)/South Column,Operation Eagle(1971-1972). Organization: Special Frontier Force.
The border agreement with China is yet another dose of insidious placebos administered on the people of India by their own government that has been in perpetual denial over the steady incremental loss of strategic Indian territory, says R N Ravi. Dr Manmohan Singh, the most widely foreign-travelled among Indian prime ministers, is learnt to have concluded his official foreign visits in his current term as the head of government with his latest trip to Beijing from October 22-24. The seminal achievement of this visit, as being touted by his government, is the Border Defence Co-operation Agreement he signed with Li Keqiang, his Chinese counterpart, on October 23. The agreement is being hailed as a landmark progress in the chronically troubled India-China relationship and a historic achievement of the United Progressive Alliance government towards securing India’s border with China. An observer of India-China border relations is baffled at the banality called the BDCA and shocked at the brazenness with which a repetitive deception on India is being peddled as an important measure for safeguarding India’s territorial interests from China’s strategic belligerence. Status quo at the Line of Actual Control between India and China is at the core of the numerous agreements and protocols signed between the two countries since 1993. However, China has not yet revealed its position on the alignment of the LOAC. India, too, for some obscure and self-defeating reasons, has not yet categorically articulated its position on the geographical alignment of the LOAC. Its failure to do so helps China enormously in sustaining its strategic belligerence at the border. China does not bind itself by articulating its own position on the LOAC and keeps making tactical incremental territorial advances into India to achieve its strategic objectives: a) gain crucial territories in geo-strategically sensitive areas and thereby irreversibly depleting India’s strategic territorial depth imperative for its national defence vis-à-vis China; and b) severely undermine India’s covert and overt potential capabilities for adventures across the border in Tibet or Xinjiang by keeping its own border region perpetually destabilised. There has been some shift in India-China relations in the last over two decades. Quantum jump in trade and commerce between the two countries has somewhat improved the atmospherics of the relationship. On the vexed border issue, there has been a perceptible convergence in the language of reconciliation. The two countries have signed some half a dozen agreements and protocols reiterating mutual restraint and non-aggression at the LOAC. However, in the absence of a mutually agreed LOAC, all the agreements and protocols for maintaining the status quo are no more than mere vacuous expressions of intent that only helps the more powerful of the two. In the absence of a mutually agreed LOAC, the situation becomes all the more irredeemable for an asymmetrically placed India when it does not spell out its own perception of the LOAC. To make matters worse for itself, India restrains its border guarding troops from patrolling its LOAC. Unlike India’s border with Pakistan where Indian troops have their posts at the Line of Control and regularly patrol the LoC, India does not allow its border guarding forces even to venture up to the LOAC. The troops are not allowed to go beyond the Line of Patrolling, a unilaterally chosen retreat position of India that runs far behind the LOAC. With no boots on the ground the Indian stance at the LOAC is militarily untenable. China takes full advantage of this institutionalised military vacuum between the Indian LOAC and the LOP. It moves its troops forward without any resistance. China could not have asked for a better scenario when it steadily gains territory and fulfills its strategic objectives without any resistance. It is a classic illustration of winning a war without a fight, a military doctrine attributed to Sun Tzu, a Chinese military strategist. China has already taken, post-1962 war, a fairly large tract of India’s land in the sub-sector north in Ladakh. Since 2005 and especially after 2009 it has shown enhanced belligerence in this sector and has moved its troops further deep inside the Indian territory beyond its stated claims in 1960 and what it captured in the 1962 war. It has been steadily nibbling into the Shyok valley, an area of crucial strategic significance for India, to maintain a tenable position in this sub-sector and retain its claim at the strategic Karakoram pass linking India with Xinjiang and Central Asia. On the eastern front, in Arunachal Pradesh, during the last four years Chinese military pressure has increased manifold at strategically sensitive points on the border. Its aggressive push since 2008 in Tatu Bowl/Dichu in Anjaw district along the Lohit river is alarming. Today it dominates the only route for Indian patrols to visit the India-China-Myanmar tri-junction. Fearing a likely face-off with the Chinese, India has stopped patrolling this segment of the border. China has, bilaterally, fixed its border with Myanmar at the Diphu Pass at the India-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the India-China-Myanmar tri-junction fixed by the McMahon Line down by over eight km. Chinese advance along the Lohit has serious adverse geo-strategic consequences for security in India’s North-East. Ironically, the China’s military belligerence became more pronounced after India and China began talking peace and signing agreements and protocols. The BDCA, the latest among the agreements, is repetitive in its essence and more ambivalent in its language than the previous agreements. The Agreement on the Maintenance of Peace and Tranquility Along the Line of Actual Control signed in September 1993, the first among such agreements, was far more emphatic in its intent and language than the tame and highly ambiguous BDCA. It inter alia states, ‘No side shall overstep the line of actual control’ and adds that ‘in case personnel of one side cross the line of actual control, upon being cautioned by the other side, they shall immediately pull back to their own side of the line of actual control’. On the issue of air intrusion it categorically obligates the two countries ‘to ensure that air intrusions across the line of actual control do not take place’. Contrast these with the corresponding clause Article II of the BDCA: ‘The two sides shall assist the other side in locating personnel… and aerial vehicles that may have crossed or are possibly in the process of crossing the line of actual control in the India-China border areas’. Instead of pressing the Chinese for fixing the LOAC, the core interim issue pending the final settlement of border, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned home diluting the earlier commitments of China for non-aggression and assuring the Chinese that our troops will share sweets with their Chinese counterparts on our national days and festivals (article V, BDCA). The BDCA is yet another dose of insidious placebos administered on the people of India by their own government that has been in perpetual denial over the steady incremental loss of strategic Indian territory. It perpetuates the dynamic status quo grossly tilted in favour of China and does not, in any way, safeguard the territorial integrity of India. Land grab by China continues. Chinese aircraft, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles are intruding into Indian air space in far more numbers than before.
R N Ravi is a retired special director of the Intelligence Bureau and monitored the China border for over 20 years. He can be reached at ravindra.narayan.ravi@gmail.com
Establishment 22 – Vikas Regiment – Special Frontier Force – Operation Eagle:
Establishment No. 22 – Operation Eagle: This badge represents a military alliance/pact between India, Tibet, and the United States of America. Its first combat mission was in Chittagong Hill Tracts which unfolded on 03 November 1971. It was Code-named Operation Eagle. It accomplished its mission of securing peace in the region that is now known as Republic of Bangladesh.ESTABLISHMENT NO. 22 – OPERATION EAGLE: IT WAS AN ACT OF UNDECLARED WAR ON PAKISTAN SANCTIONED BY PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA TO SECURE PEACE IN THE REGION NOW KNOWN AS THE REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH.
Under the provisions of International Law, the Laws of War that deal with the nature of armed conflict between nations, and according to the rules of Warfare, the military action called Operation Eagle was an act of “Undeclared War” that was duly sanctioned by the Prime Minister of India. However, it must be noted that this undeclared war of aggression is not a ‘War Crime’ as it serves Bangla refugees in India. The purpose of this War was to secure Peace in the region that is now known as the Republic of Bangladesh. This War of India on Pakistan must not be confused with the War of India on Pakistan that the Prime Minister of India had formally announced to the country on 03 December, 1971. This military action called Operation Eagle unfolded on 03 November, 1971 with violation of territory in Chittagong Hill Tracts that was under the national jurisdiction of the Government of Pakistan. Operation Eagle began with land invasion and on 09 November, 1971, Prime Minister of India sanctioned violation of Pakistan’s airspace in support of this War. Prime Minister of India approved rules of engagement and Battle Plan of Operation Eagle, an act of “Unconventional Warfare.” I am openly demanding that the rules of this game must not be changed after we had played the game and the game is over.
Establishment No. 22 – Operation Eagle: At Mobile Reserve Force, Establishment No. 22, the elder brother of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Gyalo Thondup had spoken to the chief players of Operation Eagle. Tibetan nationals who serve in Establishment No. 22 executed Operation Eagle.Establishment No. 22/Special Frontier Force is military alliance/pact between India, Tibet, and the United States. Major General Sujan Singh Uban, Inspector General Special Frontier Force, Secretary R. N. Kao of Research and Analysis Wing(RAW), and Brigadier T S Oberoi, the Commandant, Establishment No. 22 are seen seated behind the speaker.Establishment No. 22 – Operation Eagle: Most Americans would be able to easily recognize this Vietnam War Era Infantry Assault Rifle. Operation Eagle had used these Rifles with a great success during India’s Undeclared War on Pakistan in 1971. American troops did not participate in this military action but the United States being a partner of the military alliance/pact with India and Tibet could not avoid its participation as Establishment No. 22 chiefly operates using US military equipment and field supplies.This retired Air Force Officer, Parvez Jamasji received Gallantry Award of Vir Chakra for giving air support to my Unit during military action in Chittagong Hill Tracts in 1971. At that time, Flight Lieutenant Parvez Jamasji airlifted my battlefield casualties from the front line to Field Hospital. He belonged to Aviation Research Centre(ARC).
I registered the following petitions/grievances with the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances that relate to my participation in Operation Eagle as a member of Establishment No. 22, the military organization known as Special Frontier Force managed by Directorate General of Security. Cabinet Secretariat administers Special Frontier Force and other organizations such as the Research and Analysis Wing(RAW – Intelligence Bureau), and Aviation Research Centre(ARC).
I want to challenge Ministry of Defence’s refusal to grant gallantry award of “Vir Chakra” that was approved by my Formation Commander Major General Sujan Singh Uban, Inspector General Special Frontier Force based upon a citation that was initiated by Lieutenant Colonel B K Narayan, the Commander of South Column Unit, and the citation was seen by Colonel Iqbal Singh, the Chief of Staff, and was duly reviewed and recommended by the Brigade Commander, Brigadier T S Oberoi. :
A Personal Tribute to Colonel B K Narayan, The Regiment of Artillery, Indian Army.
A Sermon in Kaptai, Bangladesh Ops 1971-72. A personal tribute to Colonel B K Narayan, Islamic Scholar who served in Olive Green Uniform. The Imam of Friday Prayer in Kaptai on December 17, 1971: Glorious Quran, Surah VIII, SPOILS OF WAR, Verse 01: “And if they incline to peace, incline thou also to it, and trust in Allah.Lo! He is the Hearer, the Knower.”
1. MODEF/E/2011/00761 dated 24 September 2011.
2. CABST/E/2012/00154 dated 26 May 2012.
3. DARPG/E/2013/82606 dated 07 September 2013.
In addition the President’s Secretariat had received the following petitions/grievances:
1. PRSEC/E/2009/05526 dated 25 August 2009.
2. PRSEC/E/2012/19182 dated 27 November 2012.
THE DESCRIPTION OF GRIEVANCE ABOUT THE SANCTION OF GALLANTRY AWARD – OPERATION EAGLE:
1. A gallantry award is always granted in recognition of a past event and the gallant event would always exist as a past event.
2. In the history of Republic of India, for the first time during 1971, the Prime Minister sanctioned a military action that was not planned by Indian Army/Ministry of Defence.
3. Operation Eagle, in which I had the honour to participate was not planned and executed under orders issued by Army Headquarters/Ministry of Defence.
4. The gallant action which received the recognition for grant of gallantry award did not happen in the context of a border skirmish or that of a border conflict.
5. It was not related to the conventional, official War on Pakistan that was formally declared by the Prime Minister on 03 December, 1971.
6. The gallant action pertains to a deliberate, planned attack deep inside the territory defended by Pakistan’s regular army. I had participated in all the aspects of the planning of this attack, and had physically marched on foot along with the men who had executed the attack.
7. There was no Regimental Aid Post at the border, inside Indian territory of Mizo Hills. The battlefield casualties were treated at the enemy post that we had captured. The treatment of battle casualties began at the site of battle, about 40 miles from the international border.
8. The Brigade headquarters which had the primary responsibility of airlifting battle casualties could not dispatch the helicopter provided by the Aviation Research Centre(ARC) as the Prime Minister did not sanction the violation of Pakistan’s airspace during the first phase of Operation Eagle.
9. I, as the Unit Medical Officer, took the initiative, went beyond the Call of Duty, to ensure a safe, and timely evacuation of the battle casualties to preserve the morale of the men and had shaped the success of this military mission. I had marched a distance of over 80 miles from Sunrise to Sunset to complete my task inside the enemy territory while the enemy was still dispersed in the area.
10. Indian Army concluded its military operation on 16 December 1971. Operation Eagle concluded its military operation during January 1972.
11. The fact that the Prime Minister had established the Eligibility Criteria for the sanction of gallantry awards to the participants of Operation Eagle could be proved by the simple fact that the gallantry award of Vir Chakra was given to Shri. G. B. Velankar, a civilian officer of my Unit who was allowed the use of Major’s rank on a honorary basis. The eligibility criteria, as sanctioned by the Prime Minister, stipulated that only Indian nationals could be granted Indian Army Medals, Decorations, Military Honours, and gallantry awards. The foreign nationals who executed the War were not allowed the grant of those awards.
12. Under the battle plan of Operation Eagle, the Prime Minister did not impose any time restrictions as this War was not a conventional battle that Indian Army routinely fights and participates in its long history of battle tradition.
13. Special Frontier Force had strictly followed the guidelines, and the citation that approved the grant of gallantry award was directly sent to the Director of Medical Services (DMS-Medical Directorate, Army Headquarters) as I was serving at Establishment No. 22 on deputation from the Indian Army Medical Corps. This citation reached the DMS (Army) in a timely manner before the conclusion of Operation Eagle.
14. I am not responsible for delivering the citation to the MS Branch, Ministry of Defence while deployed on operational duty in Chittagong Hill Tracts. Army Medical Directorate failed in the performance of its duty and its failure is unacceptable. I should not be penalized for the failure of Army and its Medical Directorate.
Rudra N Rebbapragada Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162, USA SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE
SERVICE INFORMATION:
R. Rudra Narasimham, B.Sc., M.B.B.S., Personal Numbers:MS-8466/MR-03277K. Rank:Lieutenant/Captain/Major. Branch: Army Medical Corps/Short Service Regular Commission (1969-1972); Direct Permanent Commission (1973-1984). Designation: Medical Officer. Unit: Establishment No.22(1971-1974)/South Column,Operation Eagle(1971-1972). Organization: Special Frontier Force.
Establishment No. 22 – Special Frontier Force – Operation Eagle. TE3N Movie in its Section titled ‘Search For Black Van’s Owner displayed this Portrait of my 1972, Indian Army Picture ID.
An Open Letter to the President of India regarding the grant of Gallantry Award for participation in Operation Eagle, the Undeclared War of India on Pakistan, while serving with Establishment Number. 22, also known as Special Frontier Force.
Government of India, Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances Portal for Petitions and Grievances: http://www.pgportalgov.in/
Registration Number: MODEF/E/2013/01709
Name of Complainant: Rebbapragada Pratap Narayan
Date of Receipt: 05 September 2013
Received by: Department of Defence
Officer Name: Shri. Sameer Kumar Khare
Officer Designation: Joint Secretary ( Estt. and PG )
Contact Address: Room No. 97, South Block, New Delhi – 110 001
Contact Number: 23792043
e-mail: jse@nic.in
Grievance Description:
1. My younger brother, Service Number: MS-8466/MR-03277K, Name:R. Rudra Narasimham (or R. R. Narasimham ) served as Medical Officer in Army Medical Corps from 26 July 1970 to 10 January 1984 after the grant of Short Service Commission (September 1969) and Direct Permanent Commission (March 1973). He served in the rank of Lieutenant/Captain at Establishment No. 22/Special Frontier Force from 22 September 1971 to 18 December 1974.
2. He had served under the command of Major General Sujan Singh Uban, Inspector General Special Frontier Force and took part in Operation Eagle from November 1971 to January 1972. Operation Eagle had initiated the Liberation of Bangladesh with military action in Chittagong Hill Tracts. The Brigade Commander of Operation Eagle was Brigadier T S Oberoi, the Commandant, Establishment No. 22. The Chief Staff Officer was Colonel Iqbal Singh. My brother served in the South Column Unit that was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel BK Narayan. During November 1971, his Unit had attacked and captured an enemy post defended by regular troops of Pakistan’s Army. In this Infantry attack, my brother was at the front line marching with the men. The two Company Commanders, Major Savendra Singh Negi(Grenadiers), and Major G B Velankar (SFF-EST No. 22, a Civilian Officer) who led the assault on the enemy position were awarded the Gallantry Award of Vir Chakra. My brother who took part in this action with the men of these two Company Commanders was also recommended to receive the Gallantry Award of Vir Chakra. The citation for the grant of this Gallantry Award was initiated by Lieutenant Colonel BK Narayan, it was seen by Colonel Iqbal Singh, the Chief Staff Officer, it was reviewed and recommended by Brigadier T S Oberoi and it was finally approved by Major General Sujan Singh Uban, IG SFF who had recommended it and sent it directly to the Director of Medical Services, DMS (Army), Medical Directorate, New Delhi for favour of sending the citation to the MS Branch, Army Hq for their necessary action to sanction the Gallantry Award.
3. It must be clearly noted that the eligibility criteria for the grant of military awards, decorations and honours were included in the Battle Plan of Operation Eagle which was duly approved and sanctioned by the Prime Minister of India. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the Cabinet Secretariat are fully aware of the terms and conditions for the grant of awards to members who took part in Operation Eagle. My brother is requesting that the Gallantry Award to be granted as approved and recommended by the Inspector General of Special Frontier Force. My brother applied for Direct Permanent Commission during September 1972 and his application for AMC Examination held in September 1972 includes the remarks of recommendation signed by Colonel Iqbal Singh who had mentioned the citation, and had substantially quoted the citation giving the full details of my brother’s gallant response in the face of enemy action. This application for Permanent Regular Commission in Army Medical Corps is archived at the Medical Personnel Records Section(Officers)/ MPRS(O), Office of the DGAFMS, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi.
4. If you need any further information, kindly write to me and I will be happy to provide the same.
Current Status: Received the Grievance.
A Personal Tribute to Colonel B K Narayan, The Regiment of Artillery, Indian Army.
A Sermon in Kaptai, Bangladesh Ops 1971-72. A personal tribute to Colonel B K Narayan, Islamic Scholar who served in Olive Green Uniform. The Imam of Friday Prayer in Kaptai on December 17, 1971: Glorious Quran, Surah VIII, SPOILS OF WAR, Verse 01: “And if they incline to peace, incline thou also to it, and trust in Allah.Lo! He is the Hearer, the Knower.”THE EVIDENCE FOR RECOMMENDATION OF GALLANTRY AWARD – ANNUAL CONFIDENTIAL REPORT-OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1971-72
WholeDude-WholeTweet: The Cuckoo of India called “KOEL”, Eudynamys scolopacea symbolizes the thoughts that I “Tweet.”
I only want to be heard and I do not want to be seen. I speak about the relation between sound and echo, the song and the singer, the Creator, and the created.
WholeDude – Whole Artist : An artist uses colors with imagination to create forms and to generate a desired visual effect. A “Whole Artist” is a person who creates his own canvas, his own tools, his own pigments, and creates the desired visual effects while the forms that are created have no such creative and cognitive abilities.
The term artist is used to describe a person who works in, or is skilled in the technique of any of the fine arts, especially in painting, drawing, and sculpture. The term artistry describes the artistic ability which includes the use of imagination, a feeling for form, and a feeling for effect. I am using the term ‘Whole Artist’ to discover the person who may have used imagination to create forms to produce desired effects while the form itself lacks the cognitive abilities to generate its own form. Plants may produce flowers of different colors while they essentially lack cognitive abilities to recognize the visual effect of the color they produce. For example, we can examine the colorful hues of Chilean flowers, Mimulus luteus, Mimulus cupreus(Red Emperor), and Mimulus variegatus.
WholeDude – Whole Artist : Chilean Mimulus flowers. Mimulus luteus. Who is the artist that caused this visual effect?WholeDude – Whole Artist : Chilean Mimulus flowers. Mimulus variegatus. Who is the artist who produced this visual effect?WholeDude – Whole Artist – The Colors of Chilean Mimulus flowers. Mimulus cupreus(Red Emperor). Who is the artist who produced this visual effect?
Arielle Cooley, a researcher at the University of Michigan studied these Chilean Mimulus flowers of different colors and found that the plants make the same type of anthocyanin pigment called cyandin. The study includes Thin Layer Chromatography Analysis of petal extracts. Each flower produces red-hued anthocyanins and the yellow carotenoids. The two pigment types in combination create the fire-hydrant red spots on the yellow flowers of Mimulus luteus. Cooley concluded the observations with the remark: “Like an artist mixing simple colors of paints on a palette to achieve a specific shade, the Chilean flowers achieve their visual effect using varying proportions of red and yellow pigments.”
WholeDude – Whole Artist : The Colors of Chilean Mimulus flowers. Arielle Cooley, a researcher at the University of Michigan used Thin Layer Chromatography analysis of petal extracts to find the mixing of colors that is needed to produce the visual effects observed by Chilean Mimulus flowers of different hues. Who is the artist that produced these visual effects?
Who is the Artist?
Whole Dude – Whole Artist: God created Light and made the Everlasting Covenant using the Colors He created.
No single function can explain the coloration of living things. We need a comprehensive theory that predicts the lines and patterns of coloration of plants and animals. An artist’s palette containing only three properly chosen colors is entirely adequate under most circumstances to produce the various visual effects of color that is observed. The optical mechanisms involved in the production of color are complex. Coloration is a dynamic and complex characteristic and the term must be clearly distinguished from the term ‘color’ which only refers to the spectral qualities of emitted or reflected light. It is apparent that plants, and animals have no cognitive abilities to produce the coloration by which they are recognized. However, the coloration displayed gives us a clue about the nature of the “Whole Artist” who could be using imagination, has feelings for the forms created and seeks satisfaction from the visual effects that he produced. If man has the ability called visual perception, he must use the ability to visualize the “Whole Artist” who is at work.
Whole Dude – Whole Artist: God created Light to add Colors to Life He created.
The term ‘sin’ is portrayed using a variety of terms. The biblical writers describe sin as that condition and activity of human beings that is offensive to God. Sin is revolt against holiness and sovereign will of God. It is both a condition of the heart, mind, will, affections and the practical outworking of that condition in thoughts, words, and deeds that offend God and transgress His holy law. In secular terms, sin means any offense against good morals, any offense against established law of the Land, and any violation of standard code for human behavior and action.
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE DECLARATION :
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE SIN : Sin is that condition of the heart, mind, will, affections and the practical outworking of that condition in thoughts, words, and deeds that offend this Declaration of Independence and sin is any action that transgress the intent of this Declaration of Independence upon which the nation called the United States of America is created.
The Declaration of Independence adopted July 04, 1776 to pronounce the creation of the United States spells in very clear, and transparent terms the American ideal of Government based on the Theory of Natural Rights. This Declaration states the philosophy of Human Freedom and the Nation and its Government is formed by Social Contract. United States and its elected officials who represent the entity called Government have to adhere to these founding principles and they must be guided by the Laws of Nature which guarantee unalienable rights of man. Governments are instituted among men to secure their unalienable rights and Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. And for the support of this Human Freedom, we must mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. In this context, I would like to define the term “WHOLE SIN” as a condition of the heart, mind, will, affections and the practical outworking of that condition in thoughts, words, and deeds that offend the Declaration of Independence and transgress the Laws of Nature.
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE MEMORIAL :
Memorial is anything that serves to help people to remember some person or event. I would like to share the photo images of the Vietnam Veterans War Memorials to remind people that we fought these wars to contain the threat posed by Communism to the doctrine of Human Freedom, and the Rule of Governance called Democracy.
Whole Dude – Whole Sin : Remember the Vietnam War. America called its sons and daughters to pledge their Lives, their Fortunes and their sacred Honor to fight the Enemy called Communism.
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE SIN – SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL . This monument reminds people that the sons and daughters of the United States of America have pledged their Lives, their Fortunes, and their sacred Honor to defend Human Freedom, and Democracy and fought the Enemy called Communism.
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE SIN – THE ORIGINAL SIN OF NIXON AND KISSINGER :
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE SIN : The prophesy revealed by Father Moses in The Old Testament, The Fifth Book of Moses, The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 28, verses 47 to 50 has come true in the lives of American people. The RED DRAGON, The People’s Republic of China, The Communist nation is the Enemy that Americans will be forced to serve like slaves.
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE SIN : This photo image is the evidence for the “Original Sin.” Chairman Mao Zedong, and Prime Minister Zhou-Enlai are guilty of the crime called “GENOCIDE.” The UN Convention of 1949 defined the crime of Genocide; the systematic destruction by government of a racial, religious, or ethnic group. Dr. Henry Alfred Kissinger of National Security Affairs is guilty of the crime called the misuse and abuse of power. His sinful actions represent the violation of the Supreme Law established by the Constitution of The United States of America. He usurped the powers entitled to the Secretary of State. He conducted secret diplomacy before he was administered the oath to the Office and before he pledged his allegiance to the Constitution.
In the history of the nation called The United States of America, President Richard Milhous Nixon(37th president of the US 1969-1974), and Dr. Henry Alfred Kissinger( initially appointed by President Nixon in 1969 as an adviser, National Security Affairs and later the Secretary of State from September 1973-1977) are guilty of the offense called ‘The Original Sin’ for they transgressed the Supreme Law of this nation. We have to recognize China’s Cultural Revolution of 1966 – 1969 as a mass campaign sponsored by the Communist government to commit “GENOCIDE.” Many thousands died and there was no proper accounting of the atrocities committed and there was never a full inquiry of this human tragedy. The Cultural Revolution officially ended in 1969, but we all know that many of its excesses continued until the death of Communist Party leader Mao – TseTung in 1976. In the words that I chose from The Old Testament, The Fifth Book of Moses, The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 28, verses 47 to 50, I describe their actions of “WHOLE SIN” and its consequences as follows:
“Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the Earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.”
I would like to share some of these photo images that reveal the transgression of Natural Law and its consequences. The people of The United States of America having failed to serve the LORD GOD joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, will now serve the Enemy that LORD sent against them.
WHOLE DUDE WHOLE SIN : February 21, 1972. President Richard Nixon with Communist leader Mao-Tse Tung in Peking(Beijing). Chairman Mao represents the Face of Crimes Against Humanity. The UN Convention of 1949 has defined the crime of Genocide as a systematic destruction by a government of a racial, religious, or ethnic group. When this photo was taken, the United States was officially engaged in a battle in Vietnam to contain the direct threat posed by Communism. China’s Communist Party leader is the face of that Enemy.
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE SIN : Communist China’s Premier Zhou En-Lai and the US National Security Adviser Dr. Henry Alfred Kissinger are the faces that represent the Original Sin, they are guilty of the offense called transgression of Law. William P. Rogers was the Secretary of State from 1969 to 1973. Dr. Kissinger had usurped the powers of the Secretary of State and had misused and had abused his office to conduct secret diplomatic negotiations with the Enemy while the United States was openly fighting a grim battle to contain the threat of Communism in Vietnam.
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE SIN : December 01, 1975. President Gerald Ford with China’s Communist leader Deng Xiaoping in Beijing. George Herbert Walker Bush who later became CIA’s Director on January 30, 1976 is also seen in this photo. Both President Ford and George Bush were fully aware of America’s partnership with India, and Tibet to fight the military threat posed by Communism.
Whole Dude-Whole Sin : January 30, 1979. The White House Ceremony. President James Earl Carter(39th president of the US 1977-1981) with Chinese Communist Party leader Teng Hsiao Ping. Does the Declaration of Independence envisage friendly relations with the Communists?
Whole Dude – Whole Sin : April 26, 1984. President Ronald Wilson Reagan(40th president of the US 1981-1989) with China’s Communist Party leader and President Li Xiannian. President Reagan, who demanded the tearing down of the ‘Berlin Wall’, could not be a friend of the Communists.
Whole Dude-Whole Sin : February 25, 1989. President George Herbert Walker Bush(41st president of the US 1989-1993) riding the bike given by China’s Communist Party leader, Premier Li Pang in Beijing. President Bush who had earlier served as the Director of CIA is fully aware of the US military alliance/pact with India, and Tibet to face the military threat posed by Communist China’s occupation of Tibet since 1950.
Whole Dude-Whole Sin : June 27, 1998. President William Jefferson Clinton(42nd president of the US 1993-2001) with China’s Communist Party leader and Premier Li Peng in Beijing. A willingness to serve the Enemy.
Whole Dude-Whole Sin : February 21, 2002. President George W. Bush(43rd president of the US) with China’s Communist Party leader, President Jiang Zemin in Beijing. Communist China’s lack of respect for Human Rights should deter the United States from pursuing this path of self-destruction.
Whole Dude-Whole Sin : Friday, June 07, 2013. President Barack Obama with China’s Communist Party leader and President Xi Jinping. The prophesy predicted in the Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 28, verses 47-50 is coming true.
Whole Dude-Whole Sin : Saturday, June 08, 2013. Rancho Mirage, California. President Barack Obama with China’s Communist Party leader, President Jiang Zemin. The word ‘Mirage’ describes an Optical Illusion, something that falsely appears to be real. American Citizens have to wake up to the reality of the Enemy who has arrived on their shores from a distant land.( The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 28, verses 47-50.)
The Supreme Law of the United States of America is called The Constitution of The United States of America. The Constitution was preceded by The Declaration of Independence, the written document that pronounced the creation of the nation called The United States of America. I am respectfully claiming that the elected representatives and other officials that constitute the Government have transgressed the Laws of the nation when they began the unholy relationship with Communist China which is opposed to Human Freedom, and the principle of governance by Social Contract called Democracy.
Rudra N. Rebbapragada, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.,
Organization : The Spirits of Special Frontier Force.
On Friday, June 07, 2013, Representative John Dingell(Democrat-Michigan) has become the longest-serving Congressman in the history of the US Congress. He has established an unprecedented record of getting elected by people for 29 consecutive terms since 1955.
Whole Dude-Whole Representative: House Representative John Dingell represented people of Michigan since 1955 and got elected for 29 consecutive terms. Photo dated June 24, 2004.
Whole Dude-Whole Representative: Representative John Dingell with the Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn taking his oath to the office in 1955.
Whole Dude-Whole Representative: Representative John Dingell with John F Kennedy, 35th president of the US(1961-1963). Representative Dingell supported the initiative of the Kennedy administration to fund the Tibetan Resistance Movement.
Whole Dude-Whole Representative: Representative John Dingell with James Earl Carter, 39th President of the US(1977-1981). Photo dated June 02, 1977. Representative Dingell supported Carter’s administration’s initiative during 1977 to issue a visa to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and to continue the US funding of the Tibetan Resistance Movement.
Whole Dude-Whole Representative: Representative John Dingell, US Senator Carl Levin receiving US President Barack Obama during his visit to Detroit, Michigan. Representative Dingell continued his support of President Obama’s administration to give encouragement and support to the Tibetan people aspiring for Freedom, Democracy, Peace, and Justice in the occupied Land of Tibet.
I respect the democratic institutions and traditions of the United States. To defend Freedom, and Democracy, and to secure Peace, and Justice in the occupied Land of Tibet, I had voluntarily served in a military organization known in India as Special Frontier Force, or Establishment Number. 22. It represents a military alliance/pact between the United States, India, and Tibet. Unfortunately, this reputable military organization remains under the shroud of secrecy, a legacy of the Cold War Era. My belief in Democracy and my commitment to defend human rights is associated with unconditional adherence to the principles of transparency and accountability in governance.
Whole Dude-Whole Representative: Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the US(1949-1952) had formulated the US foreign policy during the Cold War era. He created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during 1949 to contain the threat of Communism using military force. Representative John Dingell supported the initiatives of US administration to combat the threat of Communism.
Whole Dude-Whole Representative: President Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th President of the US(1953-1961) continued Truman administration’s policy of containing Communism. During 1957, President Eisenhower took the initiative to fund the Tibetan Resistance Movement to contain the military threat posed by Communist China’s military occupation of Tibet since 1950. Representative John Dingell and the US Congress had supported the President in helping Tibetan people.
Whole Dude-Whole Representative: John Fitzgerald Kennedy,35th President of the US(1961-1963) continued the US administration’s support for the Tibetan Resistance Movement and formulated a military alliance/pact between the United States, India, and Tibet that established a military organization known as Establishment Number. 22( which was also named Special Frontier Force) during November 1962. The funding for this multi-million dollar military organization was provided by the US Congress and the elected representatives of the US people. Representative John Dingell has the unique distinction of extending this support since 1957.
This military organization is known in India as Special Frontier Force still exists now because of the support and encouragement given by the people of the United States and because of the actions taken by their elected representatives. Representative John Dingell of Michigan must be thanked for giving his support and encouragement to the people of Tibet in their struggle against oppression by Communist China. I want to sincerely thank the people of Michigan for electing John Dingell as their Representative for 29 consecutive terms since 1955.
Rudra Rebbapragada, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,
Organization: The Spirits of Special Frontier Force.
SPIRITUALISM-THE SCIENCE OF OPTICS-SPIRITUAL LIGHT-SPIRITUAL OPTICS-GOD IS LIGHT:
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE OPTICS: SPIRITUALISM, SPIRITUAL LIGHT AND SPIRITUAL OPTICS INVOLVES A SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LIGHT OR OPTICS. GOD IS LIGHT OR GOD CREATED LIGHT, LIGHT IS ENERGY, LIGHT IS ENERGY OF LIFE, AND COLOR IS THE EVIDENCE FOR THE USE OF IMAGINATION TO FORMULATE SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ENERGY DEPENDENT LIFE AND ENERGY PROVIDING SUPREME BEING.
Optics is the scientific study of Light and the study of Light should be concerned with the genesis, nature, properties of Light and its purpose and role in the establishment of life and interactions among living things. The first recorded utterance of God in the Bible is, “LET THERE BE LIGHT.” (The Old Testament, The First Book of Moses, The Book of Genesis, Chapter 1, verse 3.) Light is the sign of divine operation in the world of chaos and darkness. Light brings order to the world. Without a source of Light, a primary source of external energy, Life is impossible on planet Earth. Further, it can be stated that Light is essential for Life; for the synchronization of life’s living functions, and to generate the experience of peace, harmony, and tranquility in the living condition, or state. Thus Light is associated with the experience called happiness. “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights.” (The New Testament, The Epistle of Apostle James, Chapter 1, verse 17)
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE COLORS: The most important function of Light is not that of providing visual sensation. Light performs several non optical functions. Plants do not have the ability to see Light. But, plants have the ability to use light energy to perform biochemical reactions such as Photosynthesis which is a creative mechanism to trap light energy and convert it into chemical energy that living things can further use to perform a variety of their living functions. Hence Light is Divine Providence to transform non living matter into Living Organisms which can be identified by their color, and appearance.
WHAT IS COLOR AND WHAT IS COLORATION?
The term ‘color’ refers to the spectral qualities of emitted or reflected light. The term ‘coloration’ is a dynamic and complex characteristic that has captured human interest and attention for a long time. Human interest to coloration ranges from purely aesthetic to the rigidly pragmatic. Human interest in coloration led to biological studies by the Moravian abbot Gregor Johann Mendel( 1822-1884 ), the botanist who studied inherited characteristics that established the science of Genetics, using visual clues from the coloration of plant flowers.
WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE COLORS: Human interest in Coloration lead Gregor Mendel to conduct his famous studies that established the science called Genetics. He conducted experiments studying the white or pinkish flowers of Pea(Pisum sativum) plants.
BIOLOGICAL COLORATION:
Biological Coloration refers to the general appearance of an organism as determined by the quality and quantity of light that is reflected or emitted from its surface. This Coloration depends upon several factors:
1. The integrity and deployment of the structural units and features involved in the generation of color,
2. The color and distribution of the organism’s pigments, and the relative location of differently colored areas,
3. The shape, posture, position, and movement of the organism,
4. The quality and quantity of light striking the organism, including the seasonal light and temperature variations,
5. The psychological, behavioral, hormonal, and other physiological conditions associated with the use of color,
6. The visual capacity of the viewer.
THE OPTICAL AND NON OPTICAL FUNCTIONS OF COLORATION:
In plants and animals, coloration serves the function of communication. Plants do not have the ability called visual perception and yet they can transmit optical signals to attract the attention of pollinators to achieve reproductive success. Coloration such as ‘advertising coloration’ may emphasize optical signals and thereby enhance communication. Organisms use such communication to modify biotic interactions with other members of their biological community. The coloration may repel, or attract another organism. However, coloration could also be used to suppress optical signals or to specifically create incorrect signals and thereby reduce communication. Thus coloration contributes to adaptive interactions; and the deceptive coloration serves to lessen detrimental or maladaptive interaction with other organisms.
Whole Dude – Whole Colors: Display Coloration of Cock of the Rock(Rupicola rupicola of Peru).Whole Dude – Whole Colors: Display Coloration, Flash Colors of male frigate bird(Fregata minor) with red throat patch inflated to attract a female.Whole Dude – Whole Colors: Display Coloration. Keel-billed Toucan(Ramphastos sulfuratus) uses color for species recognition.Whole Dude-Whole Colors: Alluring Coloration. The blue-tailed skink(Eumeces skiltonianus) can shed its tail at will and uses it to distract potential predators.Whole Dude-Whole Colors: Display Coloration. Courtship Coloration of male Mandrill(Mandrillus sphynx).Whole Dude-Whole Colors: Display Coloration. Peacock, the male peafowl(Pavo cristatus) displays a stunningly beautiful array of colors to attract the attention of female.Whole Dude – Whole Colors: Structures called Chloroplasts found inside the cells of green plants contain the green pigment known as Chlorophyll is the only substance in nature able to trap and store the energy of Sunlight. The light absorbed by Chlorophyll molecules is mainly in the red and blue-violet parts of the visible spectrum; the green portion is not absorbed but reflected, and thus Chlorophyll appears Green. The function of Light and Color is that of Creation of Life.
Coloration may affect an organism in ways other than its interaction with other organisms. Such non optical functions of coloration include physiological roles that depend on the molecular properties(e.g., strength and type of chemical bonds) of the chemicals that create color. Chlorophyll is a green pigment which has the exclusive ability of trapping solar energy. Other examples include, dark hair is mechanically stronger than light hair, and dark feathers resist abrasion better than light feathers. Coloration may play a role in organism’s energy budget because biochromes create color by the differential reflection and absorption of solar energy and can contribute to maintain thermal equilibrium. Color pigments like melanin work as a barrier against the harmful effects of the ultraviolet rays of Sunlight. It is the mechanism for the absorption of heat in cold environments by small cold-blooded animals. Pigments found in the eye limit the incidence of beams of light entering the eye by absorbing scattered light within the eyeball that allows greater visual acuity. Coloration or its pattern affects an animal’s own vision. Surfaces near the eye may be darkly colored to reduce reflectance that interferes with vision. Emitted light or Bioluminescence forms a portion of the coloration of some organisms. It serves as a light source in nocturnal species or in deep water marine animals such as Pinecones Fishes which have bright photophores or bioluminescent organs.
Whole Dude-Whole Colors: Bioluminescence is a non optical function of Coloration as seen in this deep water fish Monocentris japonicus.
Coloration can result from accumulation of by-products of metabolic processes. The abnormal coloration called ‘jaundice’ or ‘icterus’ describes the greenish-yellow condition of the skin, urine, and eyeballs from increased amounts of bile pigments in the blood and it often indicates a diseased condition like hepatitis, a liver disorder. Similarly, Cyanosis describes a bluish or purple coloration of skin, lips, fingers, eyes, and other mucous membranes caused by lack of oxygen, the presence of desaturated hemoglobin, or abnormal hemoglobin in the blood.
Whole Dude-Whole Colors: Coloration may reveal an underlying diseased condition. This yellow discoloration of eyes and face is called ‘Jaundice’ or Icterus often caused by Liver inflammation.Whole Dude-Whole Colors: The bluish skin coloration of this baby is called Cyanosis and the presence of this coloration helps to diagnose the condition of the baby.
SPIRITUAL LIGHT – SPIRITUAL OPTICS:
SPIRITUAL LIGHT – SPIRITUAL OPTICS: This Vedic Hymn called Gayatri Maha Mantra describes the Spiritual Nature of Light and Spiritual Optics involves the illumination of human mind with true or real Knowledge.
Light is the source of Life. The establishment of Light on planet Earth is a creative process that uses light energy to recreate the spectral colors in the lives of individual organisms. The Biological Coloration is the most compelling evidence of the fact of creation. Animals, and plants do not have the ability to generate colors by simply depending upon spontaneous, random, and unguided mutations. Biological Coloration requires complex synchronization of morphological appearance, biotic interactions and behavior of living organisms that share a given environment. Light is the primary source of external energy to support the existence of all living things. The principles of Physical Optics, Geometrical Optics, Physiological Optics have to operate in conjunction with Spiritual Optics to generate the experience of peace, harmony, and tranquility that is fundamental to existence. Life is a manifestation of order to replace disorder, or confusion that could be caused if Light does not provide the stimulus called illumination that drives away darkness. It is no surprise to note that the major Biological Rhythm is called the Diurnal, or Day, or Solar Rhythm.
THE COLORFUL IMAGES OF SPIRITUALISM:
The Colors of Spiritualism: TARANTULA SPIDER – Poecilotheria metallica. Spider of Southeast India, and Sri Lanka. What is Color? What generates the Color?The Images of Spiritualism: Naja naja. The Indian snake Cobra with warning coloration on its hood.Spiritualism in Images: Concealing and Disruptive Coloration of Tiger.Spiritualism in Images: Disruptive Coloration of Zebras – Equus burchelli.Spiritualism in Images: Concealing and Protective Coloration – Shadow pattern – Odocoileus virginianus – Mottling of the fawn’s coat.Spiritualism in Images: Protective Coloration – Counter-shading – Kobus – Kobus – kob – thomasi of Uganda.Spiritualism in Images: Concealing Coloration. Ceylon leaf insect – Philium.Spiritualism in Images: Concealing Coloration. Walking stick insect – Phasmatidae – Phraortes illepidus.Spiritualism in Images: Concealing Coloration – Leaf Butterfly – AnaeaSpiritualism in Images: Concealing Coloration. Thorn treehopper – Umbonia spinosa.Spiritualism in Images: Concealing Coloration. Black Swallowtail Butterfly – Papilio.Spiritualism in Images: Concealing Coloration. Pleuronectiformes – Flatfish.Spiritualism in Images: Concealing Coloration. Right-eyed Flounder.Spiritualism in Colors: Concealing Coloration. Scolopax rusticola. European Woodcock.Spiritualism in Images: Disruptive and Concealing Coloration. Blacksmith Plover. Vanellus armatus.Spiritualism in Images: Concealing and Disruptive Coloration. Willow Ptarmigan. Lagopus lagopus.Spiritualism in Images: Disruptive and Concealing Coloration. Moorish Idol. Zanclus canescens.Spiritualism in Images: Concealing Coloration. Orchid Mantis of Malay peninsula. Hymenopus coronatus.Spiritualism in Images: Disruptive and Protective Coloration. Emperor moth. Saturnia pavonia.Spiritualism in Images – Protective Coloration. Startle Markings. False eye. Butterfly fish. Chaetodon capistratus.Spiritualism in Images: Warning Coloration. Puss moth caterpillar Cerura when threatened, raised head and tail thorns displayed.Spiritualism in Images: Protective Coloration. Startle markings. False eyes on Noctuid moth. Noctuidae. Donuca orbigera.Spiritualism in Images – Adaptive Coloration. Octopus vulgaris can blanch and change its coloration.Spiritualism in Images: Adaptive Coloration. Anolis carolinensis can gradually change its coloration from green to brown to match its background.Spiritualism in Images. Batesian Mimicry. Non-venomous Scarlet King snake mimicking of the venomous Coral snake. Both have colored rings encircling their bodies. Coral snake has black-yellow-red-yellow ring order, and Scarlet snake has black-yellow-black-red ring order. Its predator has no perfect discrimination ability and gets easily confused about its identity.Spiritualism in Images: Mullerian Mimicry. The black-and-yellow coloration of bees and wasps is an advertising, warning coloration to warn the third-party of dangerous or inedible qualities of the organism. This is not deceptive coloration. Potential predators easily learn and generalize this optic signal.Spiritualism in Images: Warning Coloration. Yellow and black markings on Poison frogs. Mimic of Ranitomeya summersi.Spiritualism in Colors: What is Color? What generates the Color? The Colors of Eugenes fulgens. It is the radiating Spiritual Light that is reflected and is recognized by the viewer.Spiritualism in Images: The Superb Tanager. Tangara fastuosa. What is Color? What generates the Color? This Superb creature is known for its Tyndall Blue Color. It needs structural elements and pigments to generate these alluring colors it displays.
Spiritualism – The Colors of Life: Sir Isaac Newton(1642-1727),English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher was the first to explain what he called “the permanent colours of natural bodies.”
I would like to begin with a special tribute to Sir Isaac Newton who discovered that white light is composed of every color in the spectrum. No single function can fully explain the coloration of living things. We need to integrate the optical, visual, physiological functions of biological coloration. I propose that the understanding of color must include its spiritual dimension. The concept of Natural Selection cannot account for Biological Coloration. Color plays an important role in every aspect of life. Most of us are familiar with coloration changes; the physiological, seasonal, age-related changes in color that are regulated by environmental stimuli such as light and temperature, coloration change due to emotions like excitement, and hormonal changes that are related to color function. Graying hair is a familiar badge of the elderly. The brilliant colors produced by a prism is an optical phenomenon caused by diffraction or dispersion, or interference of light. However, the understanding of color involves not only physics, but physiology and psychology as well. The term ‘Optics’ describes the scientific study of light. Physical Optics is concerned with the genesis, nature, and properties of light. Geometrical Optics is concerned with the Geometry involved in the reflection and refraction of light as encountered in the study of mirror, lens, and prism. Physiological Optics is concerned with the role of light in causing visual sensation. I would like to add the dimension that I often describe as ‘Spiritualism’ to obtain a greater understanding of color as a function of living things.
Whole Dude – Whole Colors
The New Testament Book John, Chapter 1, verses 3 and 4 reads: ” Through Him all things were made, without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.” There is a direct relationship between life and light and hence there is a need to describe Spiritual Optics and know the coloration of living things as a spiritual function.
Whole Dude-Whole Colors – Richard Gere in 2013. We are most familiar with changes in man’s coloration that is related to age. In several cultures, people with silvery gray hair are treated with respect as the color symbolizes maturity, and wisdom.
WHAT IS COLOR?
Whole Dude-Whole Colors: White light is perceived as colorless as only a neutral color sensation is aroused by it. White light is composed of every color in the spectrum. Human civilization has developed taste in color and has attached names, values and functions to the colors it visualizes. A sense of fitness has been acquired concerning the use of color.
Color is a sensation that is aroused when light falls on the retina of the eye. Color is the visual effect resulting from the eye’s ability to distinguish the different wavelengths or frequencies of light. The apparent color of an object depends on the wavelength of the light that it reflects. Light may originate directly from a light source or as reflected light. Color perception depends on the different degrees to which various wavelengths of light stimulate the eye. In white light, an opaque object that reflects all wavelengths appears white and the object that absorbs all wavelengths appears black. White light is perceived as colorless as only a neutral sensation is aroused by it. Any three primary or spectral colors can be combined in various proportions to produce any other color sensation. The ‘additive mixing’ involves combining colored lights. A painter uses a process called ‘subtractive mixing’ to generate colors when pigments are combined to produce the desired visual effect. It must be noted that a strict definition of color is difficult as different observers attach different meanings. The chemist is conscious of color as a quality concerning a pigment or a dye. The psychologist describes color in terms of visual perception, and this perception is further modified by human civilization that attached meanings, qualities, feelings, moods, and other special values to the colors perceived. The physicist may describe color in terms of qualities such as the wavelength of light, its intensity or brightness, and its hue, a particular shade or tint of a given color.
Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? The answer depends upon the perspective of the person who may provide the answer to that question. But, it is important to know that colors are generated by either ‘Additive’, or ‘Subtractive Mixing. Additive mixing involves combining colored lights as done in generating color movie pictures. An artist combines dyes or pigments where the pigment absorbs or subtracts certain wavelengths and reflects some wavelengths.Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? Munsell Color System. Munsell developed a system to describe a color using three criteria; hue, chroma, and value.Spiritualism-The Colors of Life-What is Color? Munsell System may provide a great understanding of color, but a biologist has to understand the role and purpose of color in relation to a living thing’s ability to survive in nature by defending its existence and through reproductive success and by adapting to variable environmental conditions and factors that are peculiar to its biological community with which it constantly interacts.
BIOLOGICAL COLORATION:
Whole Dude-Whole Colors: What is Color? Color performs a protective function. This insect resembles a twig which is an unrelated species Does this insect have the ability to predetermine its own color and its own appearance in its given environment?
Animals have distinctive color patterns that seem to play an important role to support their existence in a given ecological community that shares a common physical environment. The color may serve the purpose of protection by concealing the organism from predators or its own prey. The term ‘protective coloration’ describes coloration or color pattern that facilitates escape from observation by predators or prey. The color may help reproductive success and is used to attract mates, or to get recognized by the members of its own group. The color may constitute a warning to its natural enemies. Plants extensively use attractive colors to assist the process called pollination.
CRYPTIC COLORATION:
The most widespread form of coloration is called cryptic resemblance or cryptic coloration in which the coloration and pattern on the skin of the animal enables it to blend in with the coloration of its natural habitat. This kind of coloration may conceal the animal from its predator or prey and it involves the use of colors that have general resemblance with its surroundings. The advantageous resemblance of one species to another, often unrelated species or to a feature of its own habitat is predetermined by its own genetic endowment.
Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? The purpose of cryptic coloration is that of concealment. because of background resemblance.
IMITATIVE COLORATION:
Coloration is an adaptive mechanism and an animal can conceal its presence by imitating the appearance of a natural object present in its environment.
Whole Dude-Whole Colors: What is Color? The purpose of Coloration could be an adaptive mechanism and this insect very closely imitates the color and appearance of the leaves.Whole Dude-Whole Colors: What is Color? Marine animals often imitate the appearance of Corals or rocks to conceal their presence.
WARNING COLORATION AND BATESIAN MIMICRY:
Warning coloration consists of bold markings that warn predators away from inedible or poisonous animals. Mimicry is a deceptive coloration in which the animal resembles or mimic a warning-colored animal or predator.
Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? Color may serve as a warning sign and it involves the use of bold markings. Mimicry involves deceptive coloration in which the animal deceptively uses the warning coloration of another animal.Monarch butterfly/The Viceroy butterfly: The North American Monarch is poisonous and is distasteful and is protected by its Warning Coloration which the Viceroy uses for its Mimicry.
SUDDEN CHANGES IN COLORATION:
Chameleon is famous for its ability to change its color suddenly to express anger or fright. The change is caused by movement of pigment called chromatophores within the cells.
Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? The purpose of color could be that of expressing sudden mood changes like that of anger, or excitement. Chameleon is known for such Sudden Change in Coloration.
SEASONAL CHANGES IN COLORATION:
The Snow Hare is white in winter and is Brown during Summer and Autumn.
Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? The purpose of Color may relate to change in temperatures, environmental changes associated with changing Seasons. The Snow Hare is white in Winter and is Brown during Summer and Autumn.
COLORATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS:
The use of color may serve the purpose of getting recognition from other members of its own group and it may specifically attract the attention of mates during the reproductive season. Many plants use colors to aid pollination by bees and moths.
Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? The purpose of color could be that of promoting reproductive success. A male, marine Stickleback, tiny Bony Fish( 3 to 10 cm long) in reproductive condition with complete armour plates develops special red coloration to attract its mate during breeding season.Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? Bees are active during day and are attracted by brightly colored flowers such as the flowers of Milkweed.Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? Flowers and Pollination. Flowers may have often bright color markings called ‘honeyguides’ to attract pollinating insects.Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? Plants that depend upon moths for pollination generally produce white or dull-colored flowers that open late afternoon or night. Moths are active at dusk or night. These Mayapple white flowers produce ample nectar and carry heavy fragrance to attract the moths.
THE PROBLEM OF ALBINISM:
Albino describes animal or plant lacking normal pigmentation. The albino body covering such as skin, eyes, hair, and feathers lack pigment. Melanin is the pigment found in human skin, hair, and eyes. The amino acid tyrosine is required for melanin synthesis. An inherited lack of enzyme required for melanin synthesis results in one form of albinism. This defect is inherited as a recessive trait.
Whole Dude-Whole Colors: What is Color? The problem of Albinism helps in the understanding of the purpose of Biological Coloration. The Tiger with stripes and color has a better ability to conceal itself from its prey before attacking the unsuspecting prey.Whole Dude-Whole Colors: What is Color? This is definitely a pretty sight. This albino Peacock would not have the advantage of attracting its mate during the mating season as compared to its normal colored partner.
Biological Coloration is genetically determined and the living organism does not voluntarily select the colors it may display. Human beings could be an exception as man uses colors for purposes other than those designed by Nature for human existence.
WHAT IS THE COLOR OF MAN?
Whole Dude-Whole Colors: What is Color? What is the Color of Man? All newborn babies of all human races appear pinkish-red when they are just born. A process of maturation that extends over weeks is needed for the development of skin pigmentation.Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? Man uses the tactic called ‘Camouflage and Concealment’ to fight a battle against his enemy.Spiritualism-The Colors of Life: What is Color? This man has used the military tactic called Camouflage and Concealment. What is the true Color of Man?
WHAT IS THE TRUE COLOR OF MAN?
To explore the spiritual basis of biological coloration, in my next post, I would discuss as to how living things generate colors that play a vital role in biochemical reactions such as photosynthesis, maintenance of thermal balance and other physiological functions.
Whole Dude-Whole Artist: An artist uses colors with imagination to create forms and to generate a desired visual effect. A “Whole Artist” is a person who creates his own canvas, his own tools, his own pigments, and creates the desired visual effects while the forms that are created have no such creative and cognitive abilities.
Whole Dude – Whole Declaration: Thomas Jefferson(b. April 13, 1743 – d. July 04, 1826), 3rd President of the United States(1801-1809), the principal author of The Declaration of Independence adopted July 04, 1776. It was a declaration of the principles to support the demand for Independence. His personal commitment to its principles was profound and intense. He became a symbol of the ideals expressed in the Declaration.
DECLARATION FOR FREEDOM FROM TYRANNY AND UNJUST RULE:
The Declaration of Independence is the most important of all American historical documents. It is one of the great political documents of the West. The Declaration was drafted at the Second Continental Congress while the delegates of the thirteen colonies convened in Philadelphia had decided to proclaim freedom from British rule and wanted to make a formal pronouncement of their rights as people to form a government by choice. The Declaration affirmed the natural rights of man and the doctrine of government by contract. The Declaration gives a detailed enumeration of specific grievances and injustices and contended that the colonies had the right and duty to revolt.
Whole Dude – Whole Declaration: Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. Jefferson stated that the Declaration was intended to be an expression of the American mind. He intended to translate its principles into practice and to create in America a society in which the gap between aspiration and achievement would be narrowed. The US had erected the Memorial and has yet to reduce the gap between ideals and the reality of Independence where man’s natural rights are defended by a representative government.
DECLARATION OF NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT TO REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT:
Jefferson rarely made speeches, disliked oral disputes, and he preferred pen as the natural means of his expression. He wrote a political pamphlet, “A Summary View of the Rights of British America” (1774), arguing on the basis of natural-rights theory, he claimed: “The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: The hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” It was the fact of his commitment to the principles of the Declaration and not the mere fact of literary authorship that makes Jefferson a unique symbol of Independence. Jefferson was clearly inspired by John Locke(1632 – 1704), English philosopher and founder of British School of thought known as ‘Empiricism’. Locke was a leading philosopher of freedom and in his political theory , he maintained that the original state of nature is happy and is characterized by reason and tolerance; all human beings are equal, and free to pursue “life, health, liberty, and possessions.” The state formed by the Social Contract is guided by the natural law which guarantees those natural inalienable rights.
Whole Dude – Whole Declaration: John Locke developed a ‘Social Contract’ theory which helped to formulate the liberal, social, economic, and ethical theory of the 18th century. Locke epitomized the Enlightenment’s faith in the middle class, in the new science and in human goodness.
DECLARATION OF FIRM RELIANCE UPON DIVINE PROVIDENCE:
While Jefferson drew upon the English and French Enlightenment as sources for his ideas, and used language to structure his argument to closely parallel the natural rights theories of Locke, he made a great exception. Jefferson substituted the “pursuit of happiness” for “possessions” in the trinity of inalienable natural rights. In this one key aspect, Jefferson used ‘Natural Law’ instead of natural rights theory. Jefferson showed acute awareness of the problem of corruption caused by concentration of wealth, and property in the hands of a few individuals. He emphasized public duty rather than personal choice. He thought that happiness is attainable only by diligent cultivation of civic virtue. The Declaration reads: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…… And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honour.” Jefferson suggested that man’s pursuit of Happiness and other rights demands a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence. If man finds satisfaction under the protection of Divine Providence, he would not claim the right to disproportionate wealth, income, possessions, and property.
Whole Dude – Whole Declaration: Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence seeking natural inalienable rights was made seeking support with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence. The operation of Divine Providence is the central requirement if man has the natural, inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
DECLARATION OF FREEDOM FROM UNEMPLOYMENT:
Jefferson had correctly predicted that the Rulers would become corrupt and abuse their power, and the people “will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights.” Jefferson stated that a representative government would operate successfully only under certain conditions: 1. a wide distribution of property or the availability of a substitute that provided men with decent subsistence honestly earned, 2. an educated and informed population, and 3. laws and institutions designed to compensate for the diminution of public virtue that was sure to come when the crises of the revolution were over. While he was the Secretary of State( from September 1789), Jefferson came to distrust the proposals and the motives of the Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson thought Hamilton’s financial programs were both unwise and unconstitutional and felt that the financial policy was flowing “from principles adverse to liberty.” He had openly expressed his disagreement in opposing Hamilton’s policies for they exceeded the powers delegated to the Federal Government by the Constitution, they were contrary to the interests of the majority of the people, and that they represent a threat to public institutions. Eventually, Jefferson resigned on December 31, 1793 for he was dissatisfied with issues like the bill incorporating a “Bank of the United States.” Jefferson’s plan for comprehensive reform of the laws and institutions of Virginia included an effort to secure abolition of the laws in order to discourage concentration of property in the hands of a few great landowners. He believed that property was among the natural rights to which man was born and that it meant the right to a decent means of subsistence. “Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.” Jefferson held that a representative government cannot flourish in conditions of extreme poverty or complete economic dependence. Jefferson as the US President reduced internal taxes, the military budget was cut, and made plans to extinguish the public debt. Simplicity, and frugality became the hallmarks of Jefferson’s administration.
DECLARATION OF INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM:
Whole Dude – Whole Declaration: Jefferson was passionate in his commitment to intellectual freedom. He had authored the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom. He stated, “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
Jefferson authored the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom which had initially faced very stiff opposition. The Statute constituted a complete break with the traditional relationship between Church and State. Freedom of Mind and Freedom of Conscience to let people form their own opinions without favor or fear is a great accomplishment of his life. Jefferson’s bill on religious liberty reads: “that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions on matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.” The Bill got passed in 1786 by James Madison and Jefferson thanked him and sent him a letter which reads: “The reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.”
DECLARATION OF FREEDOM FROM IGNORANCE:
Whole Dude – Whole Declaration: Jefferson recognized the importance of Education for an informed public opinion. His major accomplishment was the founding(1819) of The University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
Whole Dude – Whole Declaration: Jefferson believed in Freedom maintained through Education. Educators at this University of Virginia and other places of higher education must continue to investigate the reasons for inequalities among men. Men are born equal, but live their entire lives coping with unjust inequalities.
Jefferson’s comprehensive plan for a representative government had included a plan for the educational system. Ignorant people could not make rational, and responsible decisions about public affairs. Education provides an opportunity to the development of talents and capabilities suited for public office. However, he had cautioned that educational opportunity must not be identified with economic privileges. I want to know as to what our students and educators think about the extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people in this country.
DECLARATION OF FREEDOM FROM VANITY:
Whole Dude – Whole Declaration: Jefferson authored the epitaph that was inscribed on his tombstone. “Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.” He was a great author who declared his Freedom from Vanity.
Jefferson died on July 04, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence. He had directed us to remember only three achievements in his public life that symbolize his quest for true human freedom. Unfortunately his predictions about people who govern and people who get governed have come true.
DECLARATION OF FREEDOM FROM INEQUALITY:
Whole Dude – Whole Declaration: Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence could not bring the Freedom from Inequality in personal income and wealth.
Whole Dude- Whole Declaration: The ideals and principles contained in the historical document known as ‘The Declaration of Independence’ could not be translated into reality. In the United States, rulers have become corrupt, they pursued economic, trade, and commerce policies that caused a huge chasm between aspirations and accomplishments of this independent nation. National, and personal indebtedness has grown to unimaginable levels while very few individuals have amassed immense personal wealth. Employment opportunities are lost as the country depends upon products and services that are entirely imported from foreign countries like People’s Republic of China where people have no representative government. United States lacks an informed population while people use education as a tool for economic privilege. There are no laws and institutions to compensate for the diminution of public virtue.
This should not come as a big surprise to read about gross inequalities in the distribution of wealth within the United States. The suspicions of Thomas Jefferson have come true. The rulers have become corrupt, and the people are only concerned about increasing their personal wealth. Education is not a tool for informed public opinion, and it simply serves the greed to satisfy the desire for economic privilege. There are no laws and there are no institutions to compensate for the diminution of public virtue. The government no longer represents an institution created by social contract. The government is following financial policies that eroded the liberty, freedom, and equality of the people. The clearest evidence for the loss of Freedom is the phenomenal increase of national and private indebtedness and the dependence upon foreign capital to run the daily operations of the government. Freedom is at peril in the United States and I am afraid that ‘The Declaration of Independence’ would be a mere historical document worthy of its being exhibited in a museum.
Rudra N. Rebbapragada, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,
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Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of independence (1776) were all of British descent. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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