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    So, You've Got A Prisoner Mother
    So, You've Got A Prisoner Mother
    So, You've Got A Prisoner Mother
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    So, You've Got A Prisoner Mother

    By Richard Lung

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    I apologise for my imperfections of journal presentation. (This is journal number 7 - by instalments.) However, they give my aged, impaired mother, Ella the right to speak, that social services Best Interest meeting denied her. In these journals, she claims her right to love and liberty, which has been denied her.
    As John Milton said, hundreds of years ago, a nation that no longer values liberty to speak the truth, becomes a sixth rate nation. (Since 1989, Britain has had secret courts of family law, and of protection, for the young and old, respectively. Disclosers of their proceedings are thrown in jail.)
    I have tried to catch the nature of Mums loss of a sense of time and place, in order to better understand it. I have treated her dream-like versions of reality, as her impaired minds functional attempts to hold her memories together, as best she can, and preserve her identity as an individual and my beloved mother.
    Social services detained my mother from coming back to her house, from a care home. It's a long story, told in the other journals, in the series. Ella, an impaired 95 year-old lost her memory. A treasure trove of memory is still there, but she cannot reliably access it. Having lived with my mother for seventy years, I am the one person she wants to be with. Ella still has her intelligence.
    It's as if a computer processor was still functional but is thrown on the scrap heap, for want of a memory deficiency, that could be relieved by an external memory drive. My life-long companionship puts me in a unique position to fill in Mums memory blanks, to the great improvement of her quality of life.
    Social services have obstructed that alleviation of Ellas condition. And caused her untold distress - untold, that is, till I brought out this journal series on Family-splitting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Lung
    Release dateOct 4, 2020
    ISBN9781005582890
    So, You've Got A Prisoner Mother
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    Richard Lung

    My later years acknowledge the decisive benefit of the internet and the web in allowing me the possibility of publication, therefore giving the incentive to learn subjects to write about them.While, from my youth, I acknowledge the intellectual debt that I owed a social science degree, while coming to radically disagree, even as a student, with its out-look and aims.Whereas from middle age, I acknowledge how much I owed to the friendship of Dorothy Cowlin, largely the subject of my e-book, Dates and Dorothy. This is the second in a series of five books of my collected verse. Her letters to me, and my comments came out, in: Echoes of a Friend.....Authors have played a big part in my life.Years ago, two women independently asked me: Richard, don't you ever read anything but serious books?But Dorothy was an author who influenced me personally, as well as from the written page. And that makes all the difference.I was the author of the Democracy Science website since 1999. This combined scientific research with democratic reform. It is now mainly used as an archive. Since 2014, I have written e-books.I have only become a book author myself, on retiring age, starting at stopping time!2014, slightly modified 2022.

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      So, You've Got A Prisoner Mother - Richard Lung

      Table of Contents

      So, You've Got A Prisoner Mother

      More on my Wave Memory theory

      Introduction

      September

      October

      So, You've Got A Prisoner Mother

      The reader may wish to skip the next section, on my memory theories, if not my introduction, before reading September and October conversations of Ella, the real author in the family.

      More on my Wave Memory theory

      More thoughts about my Wave Memory theory, introduced in a previous journal -- Short-Wave Memory Mum (life-imprisoned on her life savings).

      Brain-waves used to be traced out mechanically on a rolling scroll, from a drum, responding to electrode attachments to the head. You see this early electroencephalograph (EEG), in old movies, used to test the involuntary emotional reactions of suspects, to judge whether they are telling the truth or not. CG Jung discussed this, in a popular series, the Tavistock lectures.

      (For example, on 8 September) Ella feels the care home is some impersonal business, without bothering about its formal name, which she gets mixed up, as post office, or bank, with a restaurant, on a street where she first did business. And she’s right, being true to her feelings about the place, stripped of its veneer of intellectual respectability. Her state of mind has become like an emotionally truthful EEG read-out.

      Modern versions of this tool are completely electronic and available commercially, for training ones brain-wave activity, usually into meditative passivity. Mind control to release the body from addictions, which have become such a huge problem, appears to be big business, especially in America.

      Certainly, I could see the value of technologically enhanced meditation, for calming a harassed mind. I haven’t yet seen it applied to dementia compulsions, like those of my mother.

      (With regard to myself, I thought that I should try, at first, to do it the hard way, without the aid of a biofeedback device, which is to say a monitor of ones brain-wave state, that one consciously attempts to modify, usually by quieting persistent intense preoccupations or worries, assailing ones thoughts. After all, I was the author of the Democracy Science series, so my mind must be doing something right.

      I don't know, tho. I wouldn't mind trying it.)

      Brain-waves have only a minute voltage. As was to be expected, they still obey the laws of physics, tho. They form a spectrum from high-frequency short waves, for intense thought, to low-frequency long waves for quiet and sleep. For convenience, this continuum has been classified into a handful of typical brain-waves, named after the first few letters of the Greek alfabet, representing characteristic states of mind. Different parts of the brain can induce different types of brain-waves, combining with great complexity. (Previously, I suggested the brain formed Fourier wave super-positions.)

      It strikes me that this has some bearing on a distinction between the characters of the right and left brain lobes. The left brain was characterised as the logical analytic side of the mind, in contrast to a holistic synthetic right brain. This recalls the respective difference between high-frequency short waves and low-frequency long waves. (No doubt, this match is a gross over-simplification.)

      The right side of the body is connected to the left brain, and the left side to the right brain. In most people, the right side is naturally prefered for activity and strength. Most people mostly kick with their right foot; lift with their right arm; and look, most actively, with their right eye.

      School-children have been given a patch over a too exclusively active eye, to remedy a lazy eye.

      A psychology lecturer said to me, as a student: I thought you were my right eye. (Psychology was notoriously sectarian, half a century ago. He thought I was his academic partisan.) In the movie, El Cid (starring Charlton Heston), the king, who has dispensed with his service, dreams that he has cut off his right arm. He is, literally, in two minds.

      Sigmund Freud said dreams are the royal road to the Unconscious. (This was in contrast to the admonition of Aristotle, as tutor to Alexander of Macedonia: There is no royal road to education.) The right brain has been identified with the Unconscious. The relative unconsciousness of dreams is associated with slow long-wave brain activity, or, rather, passivity.

      A wave character of mental activity offers a convenient explanation of how people can work themselves to death. An example is the inventor, who could not rest from production of the Spitfire, during the war emergency. Relentless pushing oneself into high-frequency mental activity may achieve a temporary hyper-efficiency. But that also builds-up an unstoppable momentum, which eventually crashes, in a manner of speaking, reminiscent of computer crashes.

      The sectarianism that developed between early twentieth-century schools of psychology is itself instructive of conflicting mental aptitudes.

      CG Jung said he noticed this about his differences with the doctrines of Freud and psychoanalysis. It led him to develop his theory of Psychological Types, of which the best known, and lasting, component is the introversion-extroversion personality dimension. Behaviorism denied scientific standing to subjective experience. It put all its energies into precisely measured experiments. This suggests a high-frequency short wave mind-set.

      Sigmund Freud idealised the mechanical model of science, and theorised in terms of psychic mechanisms. But he recognised that he had to make do with traditional introspective psychology. Moreover, he kept records of his dreams, from early youth, long before psychoanalysis, which suggests that his mind did have a subjective bent. I refer to this, vaguely, as receptive to a contemplative long-wave mind-set.

      It might be worth recalling, at the age of thirty, Freud destroyed his published papers, which had given him a European reputation for objective science. It was as if the balance of his mind had swung the other way. While he, no doubt, still aspired to science, it was science in a different mind-set, a subjective science, he, himself, may have hardly credited as more than a substitute for hard science.

      Introspection has scientific legitimacy, too. One thinks of the probabilistic science of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, where there is a trade-off between accurately measuring either position or momentum. Behaviorists are high-frequency short wave precision scientists. This is not to be taken too literally, but it corresponds to position precision. Introspective psychology could not actively investigate the black-box of the hidden brain.

      (Hi-tech has put the brain more like in a glass box. But some neuroscientists are sparing of it, and remain avowedly low-tech. Perhaps they maintain a balance between high and low frequency brain-wave activity.)

      Introspection has to passively wait, which is to say, allow the low-frequency long wave thoughts to come thru the blocking clutter of high-frequency mental activity, which everyday life forces upon us, in order to survive.

      As the rugby game saying goes: a big one always beats a little one. Tho, when the big one isn’t there, the little one may get thru.

      The behaviorist position, that denies the reality of imagination, is too extreme. Imagination may well be the subdued mental activity, the low-frequency long waves of sleep, most apparent in dreams. Under certain conditions, dreams may look completely real, the so-called lucid dream. Ella, my detained mother, said so, of an imagined walk in the country. As she did this many times, the memory was reinforced. This improved the chance of an undisturbed recycling of this former waking life-style.

      Even that would involve some creative editing of the imagination.

      The brain is a receiver for electromagnetic waves, not only thru the eyes. In his classic book, Earth Lights, Paul Devereux documents how electric storms can affect the frontal lobes of the brain, inducing hallucinations and terror. The light or dark beings, often observed, have to do with back-ground electrical phenomena, to which people may be subjected.

      An example is given by the secretary of the composer Jan Sibelius. When visitors stayed, during storms, the youth was put in the attic, which would be most exposed to the electrically charged atmosphere. He envisaged black monks coming out of the earth, and touching his face, in passing by. He was terrified. I don’t doubt that the opening of his Fourth Symphony is a grim musical recollection of this event.

      His wife, Aino was convinced that he knew when his music was on the air. She would watch him getting restless, and eventually turn on the radio, to receive one of his symphonies or tone poems. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of the lowest frequency and therefore longest wavelength. Tho, they have their own relatively long, medium, and short wave-bands.

      Sibelius was, in effect a receiver or receiving station for them, as well as high-frequency waves from electrical storms.

      The observation of Aino, on her husband, is suggestive. It appears that he subconsciously picked up a familiar signal. Sibelius becoming restless may have been a symptom of his putting-in more energy to an intention, in this case, to find the frequency of the incoming signal. His becoming restless was an attempt to tune in the frequency of his brain-wave activity to that of the radio signal.

      People may become more restless, intending to muster the energy to get out of bed. Studies have been done, into how the brain is affected by mobile phones, close to the head.

      Sibelius was synaesthetic, and hyper-sensitive for a human. Other animals retain a different order of sensitivity. Since ancient times, animals have been observed to disappear, leaving man, before the onset of an earthquake or tidal wave. Only they felt the warning tremors. The tracking abilities of birds are a whole lesson in the magneto-sphere and even quantum electro-dynamics.

      A wave is a vector, which means to say it has both magnitude and direction. The direction of a wave changes, because a wave is cyclical, even when there is no change in the magnitude of the wave. So, for any given velocity, that a wave might have, there is always a change in direction of that velocity. In other words, the wave generally has acceleration of direction.

      People have found their thoughts stimulated by walking, giving them fresh ideas. Charles Darwin used to walk round his estate, for that purpose. Walking is a repetitive cycle of activity. As HG Wells put it: the swinging of one’s legs seems to act like a pendulum to the clockwork of one’s brain.

      It might be added, in passing, the Darwin walk round also completed a cycle, tho of much greater length. And, because he was on his own property, those cycles would be minimally disturbed.

      The Wells reference came from my book-case. I immediately thought of it, as downstairs, in the dining room. That is where it has been for decades. My memory was not up-to-date. The book-case recently had to be moved up to my study. Familiarity, not timeliness, was my minds first consideration. This offers a clue to my mothers state of mind, where time is also not the first consideration. The difference between us is perhaps in a different wave-length of memory. For only a few moments did a former long-time memory last. Whereas, with my mother, it may prevail.

      The Wells quotation is from an early piece of jocular journalism, called: On the art of staying at the seaside. A moral is not to let ones active self distract from passive meditation.

      Relative motion is the natural order of things. In order to move a body, therefore, there has to be a change in that motion, or acceleration. As with the body, so with the mind, motion is a vector, that can change in magnitude or direction. Walking creates a magnitude of cyclical motion in the body, that energises the cyclical thoughts of the mind.

      The alternative is to reduce, by inactivity, the magnitude of the cycles of the mind. This leaves the generation of thoughts mainly to the changing direction of the cycles of the mind. The two alternatives correspond to intensely narrow specialist thought and receptive passivity. No doubt, there is a continuum between the two extremes of active and passive thought.

      This compares to the personality continuum between extroverts and introverts. We are all more or less one or the other, in a normal distribution. And the individual changes. One has to be careful not to over-simplify comparisons. For instance, an active thinker may be more passive of body.

      My Wave Memory theory gives me some comfort. One could speculate that no matter how strong the memory signal, it is possible to lose the frequency, but, by the same token, to regain it. Some instability, in the impaired persons mind, with-holds the desired memory transmissions.

      A mathematical waveform consists not just of a positive value, but also its negative, and indeed neutral values to both. So, when I talk about a wave memory theory, perhaps I should be thinking in terms of both remembering and forgeting. One implies the other. The same with life and death, or all the opposites, for that matter. And there is also a neutral state, to either.

      In mathematics, this is represented by complex numbers, which measure two-dimensions, each with opposite ends, but both being

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