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Yesterday I traveled to Hastings with an old friend to visit Brian, another old friend now in a care home in St Leonards-on-Sea (the ‘posh’ part of Hastings).

John and Alice were waiting for us at the station in a car to take us to the care home. John being the nephew of Brian’s life-partner Noel, who died in 2005, and Alice being his fiancee. None of us had met Alice before, John having found romance in his mid-60s (Alice seems a nice woman, considerably younger than John.)

Brian, who suffers from dementia, recognized us all (except Alice of course who he’d never met before) and was so happy and pleased to see us. He hadn’t seen Tom, the friend I traveled down with from London, for many years. They are two of the old friends of my own life-partner, George, who are still alive. George died in 1991.

War has been described in various ways. Barbaric would be the most apt description; a complete breakdown of humane and civilized behavior.

It has also, I believe,  been described as a continuation of politics by other means, and a way of solving international disputes when all else has failed. I would dispute these last two descriptions, and supplement: a way of making a lot of people very rich, shoring up the unstable capitalist system, culling people in an overpopulated world and of course gaining access to new lands and resources (i.e. imperialism, colonialism or neo-colonialism.) It also seems to actually excite certain people who actually enjoy playing war games and destroying things.

Looking at all the wars thruout history, I honestly can’t see that any have solved anything. They might have eliminated one problem, but they then create more. Basically all wars are a means of one country or group of countries exerting power over others.

A Swedish woman who after her death talked regularly with her husband, born in India but who later moved to Sweden, over a period of 13 years from 1970 to 1983 via Direct Voice medium Leslie Flint. Actually Annie has more of a French accent, and I believe mentions relatives in France, so it may just be that the couple lived in Sweden.

Listen for yourself, it is really quite remarkable, and like the modern ‘Diana’ voice messages, it is a person no longer living speaking very naturally from the Spirit world about all sorts of things – such as Annie’s husband putting the bed-covers on the wrong way round, or advising him he should retire in a year or so and do some writing, not sit around the house listening to music all the time.

Last Saturday I had my 65th birthday anniversary, so I’m now officially what in UK is known as an OAP, or Old Age Pensioner entitled to a State Pension.

I took early retirement nearly three years ago to look after my mother, whose 95 and lives nearby in sheltered accommodation. I often wonder who’ll look after me and others like me who have no children or partners if I get unable to do things for myself. Presumably carers will be needed, or like my friend Brian whose gay life-partner died a few years ago, I may end up in a care home.

But at the moment I’m still very active, though don’t have the energy/enthusiasm I had for certain things a few years ago. None of us who reach retirement age can be sure how much of an active life lies ahead, but I certainly seem to keep busy and wonder how I ever fitted in work, even though it was a part-time job.

Hot on the heels of the mathematical theories of British scientist Ronald Pearson which state that all living things survive death and that the conscious i-ther permeates the universe or multiverse, comes the quantum physics theory of Biocentrism developed by American scientist Robert Lanza which says much the same thing: that the Universe and everything we perceive around us is a creation of consciousness, the prime force behind the Universe.

This is all based on quantum physics which has proved that matter is affected by the observer. Indeed, according to Lanza, the particles which make up matter only exist as probability waves unless there is a conscious observer. This is proved by the double-slit experiment whereby photons are passed thru a single slit, but when not observed the photon particles become waves and go thru both slits.

Further experiments along these lines with a beam splitter seem to suggest that past events can be altered.

I thought I’d do a light-hearted blog about some of the characters I’ve worked with over the decades. My first job in the Work Study Office of the Alcuin Press, Welwyn Garden City from 1961-1962 brought me in touch with the Father of the Chapel. ‘Oh, they must be very religious,’ I thought, till I discovered in the printing trade this is what they call the shop steward of the Union.

Len Poulter worked there, and was always ribbing me about the ban-the-bomb badge I wore. For some reason he completely ignored a girl in the same office who was a Communist, her father also being a member of the party. Making for lively discussion there was also a Roman Catholic named John and a Jehovah’s Witness in the office. Most of the heated discussions took place between these last two, such as whether JC was crucified on a Cross or a Tree.

There are various categories of physical phenomena which provide evidence of survival, or life after death. There is physical mediumship, ITC/EVP (Instrumental Trans Communication/Electronic Voice Phenomena), and then there are poltergeists, ghosts and hauntings.

The problem with all these is testing under laboratory conditions. With physical mediumship this is particularly difficult, as not only are the phenomena sensitive to light, but they are also sensitive to negative energy, so the very presence of skeptics can stop the phenomena occurring.

ITC/EVP does provide documentary, recorded and photographic evidence but the problem there is that all this is very easy to fake. So you have to be absolutely certain the evidence obtained was done so under strictly controlled laboratory conditions, monitored by independent witnesses.

With poltergeists, ghosts, hauntings, etc. again the presence of cameras and scientific equipment often seems to adversely affect the phenomena, but even when they do occur it is not necessarily evidence of survival.

This was a phrase my Greek-Cypriot cousin used yesterday to describe homosexuality, saying she’d still support any son/daughter who was gay but it was ‘not normal’. This choice of phrasing carries the unfortunate implication that all homosexuals are ‘abnormal’. I would prefer the term ‘not usual’, with the implication that being gay was unusual. Not strictly true, as it is very common in both the human and animal kingdom, but at least it doesn’t imply that being gay is a negative thing.

One could, of course, remark that someone who has lived in this country for about 50 years and has a poor command of English is ‘abnormal’, as are her parents who lived here for 15/20 years and speak hardly any English at all. But I digress, save for the fact that her choice of words might have been wiser had she bothered to learn English better in the last 5 decades.

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Ostalgie is the German term coined for nostalgia for the old Socialist regime in East Germany (Ost being the German word for East, thus: Eastalgia would be an English equivalent).

The film ‘Goodbye Lenin’ gave an idea how many former citizens of the GDR (German Democratic Republic or DDR to give its German initials) have a great deal of nostalgia for the now defunct State which was disestablished and its territory absorbed into the Federal Republic (former West Germany).

Brand names familiar to GDR citizens have disappeared, along with the full employment, security in old age, comradeship, and many other things which the old Socialist state gave them. Gone is the State which subsidized basic food prices, the cost of housing and put the emphasis on public services.