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To: arun gera who wrote (79798)	9/18/2011 6:11:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219890

Arun the dab of paint between the eyebrows is not just ornamentation like mascara. It's a philosophical matter of existentialism more than appearance-based mating ritual which is what mascara and lipstick are about. That's how it came about anyway. The 6th chakra thing is because of the frown which shows in infants a couple of months old as they ponder what's going on. Of course a load of malarkey gets built up around such things by charlatans over time. Somebody invents a fancy ornament to sell at a profit and separate the really cool dudes from the mere pondering contemplatives. Infants of course have not much linquistic process, so the frown in them is related to development of intuition and emotional processes and how the world works visually and aurally, with them matching what they experience with their genetically based wiring, and their physical interaction with the external world in a feedback loop of pondering cogitation. Of course now it's just an ornamental dab of paint to signify cultural compliance for most people, as you say, like mascara, lipstick, tattoos. In the same way, philosophical things like Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism and Islam lose their theological existential foundations and become mere ritualistic genuflection to the priesthood who have contrived to get themselves into positions of power. Nevertheless, the dab of paint is a reminder to the individual wearing it to have psychic tranquility in the face of the external maelstrom. Meanwhile, getting off all this stuff onto financial matters: finance.yahoo.com Neil Kashkari interviewed by Aaron Task worth seeing and hearing. Mqurice