{Type Cycles}[19th March 1988]

[Redbook5:96-98][19880319:1910]{Type Cycles}[19th March 1988]

19880319.1910

Of course, the cycle theory has been around for years:* probably for more years than we know the history of. Of course it is obvious, and its structure is obvious, in all sorts of symbolic patterns, including, I have no doubt, the 'wheel of life' idea. But I am only human: I cannot help but be taken aback by the note in The Times today** about Professor Ravi Batra's best-seller 'The Great Depression of 1990',*** with its ****'cycle theory, going back thousands of years and with roots in four fundamentally different human personality types'.# The fact is, I have previously not met any marriage of periodic cycles with the four 'types' within Humanity – other than my own, which I suspect is similar.

What is particularly discouraging is that the whole thing seems to have been presented in such a way as to make the worst possible impact, with (apparently) poorly thought out analyses and predictions, and connections of the originator (one P.R Sarkar)#* with murder, and with the Ananda Marga sect of Hinduism, itself 'linked with hijackings, child abduction, homosexuality [sic], and rites involving human skulls[']#** Great! Wonderful! (and Batra himself, or his publicists, seems to have indulged in overblown claims of his own authority).#***

*{cf. VI.[]244}

**[The Times, 19/03/1988: 'Commentary', by Peter Brimelow: 'Meeting his doom' (Cutting inserted in the ms at p97).]

I had cancelled The Times: expensive and depressing. Maybe I need it.

***[Batra, Raveendra (1987). The great depression of 1990: Why it's got to happen – How to protect yourself. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780671640224; apparently first published as Batra, Raveendra (1989). Regular economic cycles: money, inflation, regulation and depressions. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780312032609.]

****cf. Mandelbrot mathematics?[[Redbook4:271-274][19871230:0017]{The Mandelbrot Set}[30th December 1987]ff ]

#cf. Dr. David Lewis? [[[Redbook3:182-183][19870413:1450c](THINKING [continued])[13th April 1987]]]

[& see [Redbook4:327][19880113:1503e]{Disclaimer}[13th January 1988]fn ult.]]

NOT by any chance a reworking of the [Hindu] Four-Caste system??

(& cf. Plato, Pythagoras?) <2400> [[Redbook3:160-162][19870409:1345q](TAROT NUMBERING, AGES AND OCCUPATIONS [continued(4)])[9th April 1987], #fn ult]

#*[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (11 May 1922 – 21 October 1990), also known by his spiritual name, Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti (Ánanda Múrti="Bliss Embodiment"), and known as Bábá ("Father") to his disciples, was an Indian philosopher, yogi, author, social revolutionary, poet, composer, and linguist. Sarkar was the founder of Ananda Marga (the Path of Bliss) in 1955, a spiritual and social organisation that offers instruction in meditation and yoga. Giani Zail Singh, seventh President of India, has said about Sarkar: "Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar was one of the greatest modern philosophers of India."]

#**[The Times, op cit. Not quite sure what sexual orientation has to do with anything here.]

#***[The Times, op cit.]

{cf. VII.[]333

XV.[]360

X.[]357.}

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