Words And Special Meanings

I guess if you asked a hundred people what color 'amber' is they will predominantly say 'yellow' or a translucent yellow or yellow-orange.'

Now we have seen in the recent prior articles here that even in the case of the 'mythological' 'cave of wonders' in actual reality such a thing truly exists. And, the real version that is located in Travancore has all the same elements contained in the basic fairy-tale: magic words of opening, curse, immense treasure within, even the aspect of a guileless youth who could be sent inside to obtain some of the treasure.

Dominican blue amber is very rare - only about 100g a year
are mined

In a world today in which it seems that you can get anything and everything quite readily by using money to buy it, I'll give you an example (of which there are quite a few) of something that you cannot get commercially - and which is quite surprising given that the kinds of people behind these markets and ventures you would suppose 'already know it all...'

Amber - real stone resin amber, not ambergris from whales - when burned, gives off this churchy, sort-of medicinal frankincense-y odor which is used extensively in modern Oriental-classified perfumes. The obvious examples are the Guerlain suite which includes Shalimar, and Encens Mythique D'Orient, and say also Opium by YSL, and Tabu by Dana, and maybe Dior's Poison. All of these have amber in varying degrees of prominence.

But they are all standard 'yellow' amber.

There is another amber - Dominican amber - and it is incredibly rare, and it is blue. It also renders an amazing scent when burned or rubbed... 'Blue amber' is mostly from the Dominican Islands, but it is also available in tiny quantities from other places around the world where there had been ancient prehistoric forests - now fossilized - of a kind of a gigantic pea flower tree, or a giant prehistoric bean tree.

Now it doesn't matter to me that Clive Christian claims to make the world's most expensive cologne or aftershave or perfume...

LOL.

So far then, you know the key ingredients are: Sesame oil, and amber. Because I have told you.

But you need to know what to do with the Sesame oil, same as I have just discussed that it is the 'blue' type of amber which is used. You can't put the Sesame oil into the fragrance. That is not the point of it.

The Major Problem With 'Translations'

There are a lot of problems trying to ascertain the exact precise meaning of something recorded in most ancient times.

One of these problems, and in my own view, the single biggest problem, is that the knowledge base people were operating from during the specific time in question of the record being actually made, is usually completely different or substantially lacking, from what we can employ today. 

A gold 'Mohur' of the East India Company

And so, a simple casual or colloquial statement, turns out to be anything but simple when viewed in context of the obtaining knowledge base.

There are no people who are academically-learned in the subject itself either as folklore or narrative fiction, who do not 'believe' that the story of Aladdin relates to 'China,' even though the tale itself appears to have come from a Syrian or Persian storyteller or group of them.

The essential fact is, however, that the phrase in the original source texts we have, taken to imply 'China,' actually says 'utter East.'

And... ...that would in fact be in keeping with the actual location of the Travancore cavern of almost countless amounts of gold and jewels with its 'magical door' able to be opened by the saying of a mantra, albeit only able to be safely entered into by a guileless youth. ...Which actual real location is in the deepest end-point of INDIA, in Kerala State.

It is the essence of the door itself - the subjects depicted thereupon, and their meaning - which we will consider next, and you will see that the true 'priceless treasure' is out there on the visible surface; but it too, is subject to complete misunderstandings that have made their way into various commonplace interpretations and 'translations' of whatever is written and drawn there.

'Open!' 'Sez Who?!'

Okay so this was a line in one of my favorite Eddie Cantor films about a young film-set and stage-hand called 'Al Babson' who fell asleep on the studio lot one time and then... ...had a dream.

And in the dream of course, there was this talking door, see, and Al Babson sez to it: 'Open!'

And the magic talking door sez back: 'Sez-a 'oo?'

And Al sez: 'Sez-a me!'

And the door opens.

Aladdin in the current Broadway production

Here, a little bit down the page, is the famous door in modern Kerala State in South-Western India, behind which is housed the world's largest horde of treasure of all time - the door is known as the Padmanabhaswamy Temple Door.

And those are not cobras depicted there, so the story that the treasure is protected by cobras is rubbish. 

No one has ever been inside those doors. And there have been age-old court cases between the family that ruled the region in ancient times, and the priests of the temple itself, and all the many 'scientists' and archaeologists, and researchers and so on over the years, especially in recent times - including local state politicians and even the government itself, all of the latter of whom who wanted to use the gold and jewels inside to fund the rising government budgetary needs.

As with so many items of Hindu culture and folklore, the temple doors hold a curse for the individual who even has the 'magical words' that will cause the doors to spring open and grant access to the treasure - namely, that that person will suffer some great calamity leading to their death.

The Padmanabhaswamy 'Forbidden Door'

It's theoretically plausible that behind the doors there might be a treasure of significance, since the rest of the temple is unquestionably the most covered and stocked with gold and jewels of any place anywhere on Earth - it has been authentically valued at trillions of dollars!

We will not be opening those doors physically today. But we do know how to get in, how to have them be magically opened, and how to gain access safely to the treasures within...

And we will be exploring all of that soon...

Murdering The Top Brands

I have relayed to you all, that the numbers of official exhibitors at this year's recently ended 'Basel World' Watch Trade Fair were down by more than half.

And following closely behind this item of business and marketing data is the news this week that Burberry - the London-based English brand that came from Basingstoke originally in 1856 - has burned, as in literally destroyed over fifty million US dollars of product (clothes, bags, perfumes, other accessory items), with the objective of decreasing supply and thus I suppose presumably making the branded articles lower in supply than perceived demand in order to buoy up prices.

I guess.

This thing is a real thing, and it exists and it works -
and it is made by Aston Martin

Now in the case of Burberry there are other factors than 'ordinary' and typical current-era market economics as taught by these industrial manufacturers of idiots and professional stupid people. Liz Claiborne, the CEO, passed away not that long ago altering much of the dynamics of how the place was even able to be run, between the creative department and the financial management area.

However, when you also look at other London brands such as Aquascutum, and its extremely dodgy 'bankruptcy' and subsequent 'sale' to a holding company for not much more than ten million bucks, to be re-sold again very quickly for upwards of 150 million... ...then you can stick on your paranoid skeptic hat and think about the effect of the silly 'China-money' and the ethics of your average London 'businessman' and what happens when those two things get together.

Another brand which in my view is rapidly moving towards its demise is, wait for it, don't gasp - Bentley.

Oh yes, unlike the German Rolls owners, the present owners of Bentley are hardly what you could readily call 'good custodians of the brand.' In fact, right from day one of their buy-out arranged by the criminal-minded fool Margaret Thatcher (that last bit was written by John Lydon, by the way, not me...), they completely moved straight-away, towards contemporary Germanic design concepts and AWAY from the traditional Bentley shapes and ideas, except that they claimed Bentley was always already doing this 'vorsprung durch technik' design philosophy, so that's what 'allowed' them to do it... Yeah, right, except that it was from an English point-of-view what original Bentley were doing, ya idiots, not the fractured optic nerve perspectives of German 'masterminds.' (LOL). 

And this is a real Savile Row jacket - can you tell?
Not that many left doing it for real in London now...

When it comes time for you to spend your big bucks now, think ten times first now - remember you are living in a world of mixed virtues: highly advanced technologies that indeed definitely have their place, even though they are being used or exploited by people from completely different parent brand ideologies - all mixed up with for the most part falsified, spurious representations of previously genuine authentic luxury or expensive functional things.

I totally agree with Aston Martin over their unveiling this week at the Farnborough Airshow which is still on for a couple of days - of their flying car. This is where carbon fiber and composites and F-B-W and computers and drone technology was always legitimately heading.

But if you want a real authentic sports car (carriage which goes on wheels and tyres on a road), call me up and I'll privately introduce you to the people who still actually make them in England; same goes for shoes, suits, shirts, watches and just about everything else you can think of.

Even Mysore sandalwood - the authentic stuff - is literally no longer actually available even in Mysore. The best of that thing comes from here in Western Australia where the Maharajah of Mysore started some official plantations out in literally the semi-desert wilderness here. So there ya go!

Why Don't 'They' Say?

The internet is nothing if not a vast receptacle of 'things you were never told...' People make such claims all the time, it seems, nowadays.

And some of these 'things' indeed seem to me quite legitimate in the sense that they have been 'suppressed' as information down through the years, for what reasons no one will ever really know, I suppose.

What aftershave, for the well-heeled?

But if we are smart modern minds, we simply have to take into consideration the effects of sophisticated Western marketing, and the way this tends to skew popular beliefs, or to grab the focus away from actual hard facts and onto the media 'message.'

I'll give you an example of something that is part of my standard family background 'knowledge base,' I guess you could call it, but which would not occupy too many people's attentions unless they were in a particular industry.

Here's the example: regardless of the fact that people do know about the 'spice trail/s,' and its history, they still are unable to apply common sense to for example, the eventual outcome of the spice trail on French perfumes... ...for instance. No one ever, not even Luca Turin or Roja Dove in any of their books will say that clearly, the traditional methods and ingredients in perfumes manufactured in the Orient or in India, found their way into what was MARKETED as 'French-invented/created' fragrances.

You see, the fact is, even now, if you purchased a 'big brand house' name French perfume, you will pay a substantial amount of money - for what is essentially a re-packaged, re-branded, stock standard traditional Indian-made essential oil which has been added to an alcohol solution.

You might pay ten dollars in India, or via an on-line purchase direct from the traditional India manufacturer, and pay literally a thousand dollars for the actual exact same thing, albeit the latter diluted in alcohol solution and held in a neat glass bottle.

Russian Leather - totally unisex

Things like Muguet, or Russian Leather - are formulations that have been made by several big names - Chanel, Guerlain, Floris (the English house), Coty; all have made the same thing at different times, since originally, the creators would sell their formula to several manufacturers.

And so, even in the most authoritative reference books, the list of ingredients and the way of formulation is in fact wrong. You see, the belief exists and no one even inside the industry will challenge it because they just lack a lot of common sense and are stuck in the hubris of their positions - that various ingredients now known by certain nomenclature (for one example, take cypriol...) were 'invented' at a certain place, at a certain time, by a certain person or persons...

And even when they tell you, what they think is the truth, when you examine it, it is just plain silly.

'Nagarmotha' fragrance extract- which is called 'cypriol' (extract from the nagarmotha plant) was created by the M. L. Ramnarain perfume house of Kanauj, in India. According to the experts. And that is partly quite correct.

Cyperus or Nagarmotha plant - common nutgrass 

Except that it was 'invented' a lot earlier than supposed.

Cuir de Russie (Russian Leather) by Chanel (original Chanel version, invented by Ernest Beaux in 1921) contains nagarmotha extract - and that is because those people knew about the spice trail, they knew people from the actual authentic spice trail, and they got their ingredients from the actual authentic spice trail. That's what 'secrets' were all about back then; they were genuinely exotic things and real 'secrets.'

Nagarmotha is a very common ornamental plant you can find in any suburb. Almost everywhere in the West it goes by the name of 'nutgrass.' It is neither the tiny hard nutty seeds nor the small short-lived flowers which produce the essential oil or 'fragrance,' but the roots.

Nagarmotha from M.L. Ramnarain is harvested wild from the lower sections of the Himalayas, so yeah, that is pretty exotic... But otherwise, you can get the same stuff from more or less anyone's back yard here in the suburbs.

So cypriol they will make you believe is a few decades old. It is, in Western perfumery at least as old as a hundred years. And in ancient traditional Indian perfumery, many many thousands of years...

And I tell you all that to tell you this: if you believe the Russia collusion narrative began with Peter Strzok or someone like that, or in the FBI or something like that, and that the actual Russians (be they Russian government or just 'Russians') hacked computers to 'meddle with elections' you have no memory, and you are - like most of the modern media, and the common population as well, totally nuts.

Soon, my lad, soon my gal, we will be looking at what really happened, and knowing that, then, we will be able to know what is happening, next. Or now, as in fact it is happening now. Right now. Oh yes; exciting days.

So why don't 'they' say? Because 'they' don't know.

Counterintelligence And The UK

Counterintelligence, as a dedicated, systematic, officially-approved activity, really only began in the United States in the late 1950's with the launch of something now known as 'COINTELPRO.'

But the fact is - and it really is a genuine fact - that this move by the United States government, was merely a reaction to the knowledge that the United Kingdom has been 'indulging' in so-called 'counterintelligence' activities for many decades. And I say 'so-called' because it really is just a set of criminal and illegal behaviors that appears to be nonetheless officially sanctioned by government; it isn't sanctioned... 'Counter...' '...Intelligence' - means exactly that: to counter, or interdict the actions of a foreign hostile power, and especially, to convince that foreign power that it is receiving accurate, true, intelligence (information) when it is really receiving false information.

It doesn't mean that it is suddenly okay to murder, extort, disrupt the business activities of legitimate people and businesses, or harass the innocent. And yet, 'counterintelligence' has taken on all of the aspects of gross illegality that you can imagine, and some that you likely will not even imagine(!) - and largely these are the same activities that have led to what everyone now calls 'the Deep State.' In other words, such measures and activities are used by one political side to disadvantage the other side, or even, as in most cases - one particular clique's economic agenda.

Worse still, there is an awful lot of personal prejudice that goes into what is enacted by covert and clandestine arms of government bodies, as - 'counterintelligence.'

Here is an old old pic of an interview of Martin Luther King by the BBC:

The man with his back to the camera is Richard Hugh Burnett,
who was not just an MI6 spymaster, but a SUPER-spymaster;
one of those whose proteges still run many spy programs inside and
outside of the UK today.
(And, obviously, the man in the middle of the frame is Martin Luther King).

It was not ever the USA that first messed around in people's lives, private and/or public, in such a way that those doing it gained enough actual power to enable this animal known as 'the Deep State,' it was spies and spymasters in the UK but even these had to find funding for nefarious activities that could never be approved of by any Parliament - and that is why we have today, the atrocious circumstance of these criminals having exploited their positions in the fall of the Soviet Union, and also the aftermath of WWII where the 'disposal' of Reich possessions became part of the purview of 'counterintelligence' for whatever misconceived reasoning.

This is why people like Bill Browder can 'afford' to throw 400 thousand dollars at the US DNC to regain some ground lost to the Trump machine. Browder, as also the UK covert establishment, is on the losing side of history, if for no better reason than that they can only get money from theft, and not creative and open genuine business and enterprise - and their days are numbered when it comes to operating in the shadows. The internet has seen to that. There is a fight left of course, but a fight they will utterly lose. It will get very nasty, and there will be killing. Anyone who thinks the US and the CIS do not have personnel in their military arms that could take on any would-be and fake 'Licence-To-Kill' 'James Bonds' are mistaken. It is absolutely a fact that the Five Eyes group is a rogue, a renegade body which has blood on its hands and they have been exposed for what they are and the next time they try some nonsense they might well find themselves in front of Navy Seals lying in wait for them.

Which will of course not stop them. That's what stubborn people do - they walk into the fire knowingly. Because they are arrogant. And not too bright. Let's watch the body count. (And I'll have to edit some of the last two paragraphs out in a short while...).

The Hidden Hand Of...?

A quick note on the comments posting facility: this was somehow disabled without my knowledge but has now been re-enabled - due to the alerting of a friend who reads here. Thanks to Bill - for that heads up. 

...It was 'almost as if a hidden hand had -,' et cetera.

Now moving on from previous posts, and particularly for those who are living in the United States, which is presently experiencing some marginal increases in domestic monetray circulation velocity, and some consequent pick-up in official rates of employment combined with the stock market holding its values close to all-time highs - something that needs to be watched very closely is 'economic diversity.' If this is not evidenced inside the domestic economy then there are extremely bad consequences later on down the track. 

The old Porsche style

You see it's the diversity that allows for broadening of monetary flows, and not just simple velocity increases down the same old paths - because there are upper limits to efficiency in any vertically-integrated channel, as there also are with horizontal channels if these are not part of a growing 'dendritic pattern.'

The whole thing about decadence and final collapse is that everything 'thriving' is bloated; functionless but sucking up ever larger amounts of capital. And then like all giants, they are top-heavy and can be made to keel over quite easily.

As investors we have to face the reality that somehow, the hidden hand of some occult intent, drew off the cash money supply by over-emphasis firstly of 'credit cards' and then 'debit or cash cards' and the abandoning of 'wage packets,' and next so-called 'cash reporting' requirements - and this has resulted in the total destruction of all kinds of economic activities inside the usual domestic economy: from sandwich bars and tea rooms, to milk shake bars and Avon(!)... ...all kinds of activities which largely used small amounts of cash as the medium of exchange, but which when multiplied out across the whole national economy, provided huge business opportunities and employment opportunities to many.

Effectively, modern politicians have actually destroyed the Western domestic economies of the world and replaced them with nothing at all.

Just A Conversation

The way I approach these blog-posts is that they are 'just a conversation between friends' or hypothetical friends, anyway. Some people I know personally, don't necessarily leave comments here and I speak with them regularly.

But even for those of you who neither leave comments or email and so on, the general intent of what I am saying is not supposed to be something set in stone and that 'no one can disagree with ever!' On the whole though, I'm sure you yourself have found that virtually every 'luxury channel' will refrain from open or outright criticism of any of the brands or subject matter of their content - and that is because they are, clearly, operating from the position of in some way acting for the brand or brands; promoting and marketing them in some respect.

These are just bottles you can buy - they are
'etched apothecary bottles' with clever words on them!

The trouble with this kind of myopia though, from the brand houses and their commercial supporters, is that regularly they literally bury themselves by digging heedlessly in some errant direction - they can and often have ruined their own brand franchise by their own bloody-mindedness to enforce some kind of change in style or standard of the brand and its product.

My own experience of people has been that ordinary normal people all have a very good sense of what 'high quality' is - they don't particularly need advice as such, probably only key information if it happens to be scant on that front.

I suppose one of the saddest things is that a significant brand or branded product has built up its strength over time, and the power in its value can last a long time, even when it is assailed by lessening standards or miscreant owners and managers. And the underlying presumption in this 'sad thing' is that it is all too often the case that whatever mentality is in management control of something often gets to that position in the first place entirely without genuine merit - and even institutions can be subverted silently over time and what is automatically taken on the outside as 'merit-based' is in fact a fallacious assumption to be indulging in by some observer.

You do not need me to tell you what 'things' you ought to buy!   

But how do 'the wrong kinds' get into power and control - of material things and organizations and human institutions of influence? Because everything that has a good or great reputation is desired after widely - and lusted after also by the most devious and miscreant. And they have no boundaries of ethics or morality. 

A lot of other, bottles...

The amazing thing about this universe, is that scattered in the dust, among the detritus and the rocks and flints, are things of staggering import and value and desirability - and that are undetected and unseen by the unworthy; and if they but knew, they would kill and stand over heads and bodies clambering to grasp.

I personally have no need to 'see' aliens arriving to hand over all this precious 'technology' they are presumed to possess  - and surely will possess, if indeed they had to 'get here' from some extreme distance away through space...

I do need to know where there are a half a dozen interesting, worthy, intelligent human or human-like individuals whose personality and character provide a suitable template - an example - we might use to guide our own thinking and style and styles of behavior.

Some Straight Talk

You know, what happens with these truly huge high end manufacturers and their marketing people, is that more often than not - and certainly in the Western part of the world - at some point they start to believe that 'they' (the current managers) are in control right now, and that therefore they are the sole reason for the brand's success...

And that would be just fine and dandy if they kept to the formula of whatever it was they were making - but no, they suddenly get this idea that any decision they make, and usually guided by what they imagine is rational economics, must be the right thing and no discussion about it is to be had. 

Another nicely-composed shot of the Aston 'Q'

Get them to change their mind about anything? Impossible. One of the most outstandingly absurd items ever to go into all the wrong places in high quality luxury vehicles - for example - is composite carbon fiber laminate. 

Now if you sit in modern examples of any of the great automotive marques - Jaguar, Aston Martin, even Bentley - the first thing you will notice and often even before the engine starts and the wheels roll, is the squeaking and creaking from the carbon fiber used structurally inside the cabin. The whole idea of carbon fiber in vehicles is that it combines incredible strength with lightness... Once again that is fine; except when you start to believe there is a limitless curve for vehicle weight, and that such a trajectory is in any case a permanently fixed objective - you end up with a racing yachting skiff for a road car, instead of a car at all, really, with all of the attendant rattles and squeaks.

Okay, you put up with the noises; I don't mind. But don't try to sell me on the carbon fiber 'cross-hatched' fake wood, or 'para-wood!!'

And you pay the money and you can go flying around streets and corners without due consideration for the consequences and risks of accident at high speed. Yeah, yeah, vorsprung durch technik has taken care of it... Not. Ordinary common *'ing whiplash will kill you or make your life terminally miserable. 

This is actually a new DB11 V8

Carbon fiber is rubbish when it comes to some 'ultimate material.' Like anything it has its own limitations - a LOT of them, in this case in fact.

So no, I won't be buying your Aston Martin today, Mr 'Q.'

And that there, about 'Q' - is me being about as straight as I could possibly ever be. Nod nod wink wink.

Secrets Of Carotene Degradation

Huh? What?

Yep.

1. What you are about to read are secrets.

A rose in the night...

And 2., because not a whole lot of people read this blogspot, they will likely remain secrets to the greater public for a while at least.

...But you know, huge big commercial operations at the very top understand some of these things that you are about to read here:

Do you know why people generally like the scent of roses? I'll tell you why - the chemicals that make for the threshold perception value (which happens to be very low, less than 1 part per Olympic-sized swimming pool) spur the body to make melatonin - which in turn increases the human brain's sensitivity to a vast range of positive sensations.

The actual chemical molecules that provide the characteristic scents (there are many of them all in a category broadly called Damascones, or Damascenones), are derived from the break-down of carotenoids. What also falls on the spectrum of these types of 'rose ketones' or rose scents, includes what makes tea pleasant - this chemical is also a Damascone molecule.

Now why is this important at all?

Well, now, the real secrets go beyond the simplistic kind of thing you are likely to read elsewhere. 

As you probably know, the most expensive and very difficult to acquire discontinued thing called 'Nombre Noir,' contains these Damscone molecules in abundance, and it also has some other clever compounds in its contruction that produce some effects in a person's perception - but you have to look at the art of the man who made the thing in the first place: he committed suicide when the major brand house of 'Shiseido' not only discontinued the line, but tried to re-call and buy-up/buy-back all the stock that was still out there unsold.

Art includes ways to trick the mind...

And 'the art' that I was referring to? Well, just look at the name itself; this man knew more than he said in any kind of open detail... The time that the human body produces the most natural melatonin is during the so-called true 'witching hour' between 3 and 4 a.m. Some people think the witching hour is just after midnight, but it is in fact just before 4 a.m. The reason people believe sunlight 'produces' melatonin is because increased levels of light raise the threshold of dark at which melatonin starts to be produced.

So yeah, Nombre Noir. It's about the night, about the dark.

Nothing Happened

The 4th of July hasn't ended yet, and it's barely begun in the US, so this is a bit premature but I'm not expecting anything to happen. Nothing has ever happened 'on schedule' or 'on cue' ever in the past as far as this type of thing is concerned, so I don't expect much will change now.

Okno space surveillance system in Tajikistan

...And certainly not just because I commented that there was traffic about some 'event' or 'incident' of an unusual nature going to take place on the 4th of July this year, 2018.

All the same, it's worthwhile noting that the famed 'Roswell UFO incident' is commemorated on the 4th of July - because William Brazel, a homestead foreman, retrieved materials from the supposed crash site on the 4th of July 1947, even though the actual crash was meant to have happened a week or so earlier. And I suppose this (4, July) is the important date because facts and hard evidence are the really significant things, aren't they - picking up some actual debris from the crash of whatever the thing was, was the most valuable thing.

Today, when there are so many cameras readily available to the hands of so many people just, well, everywhere - people can't get away with simply making verbal claims about something they saw: pics or it didn't happen!

And the next fact that requires to be taken into consideration is that there are hundreds of space surveillance installations - radar and radio frequency sensor arrays as well as sophisticated optical telescopes - all over the world run by governments.

Today, if anything turns up for real - we'll see it and get decent pictures too.