Interview with Charan Anand, aged 83, on how he found peace within

Dirt - a song by Prem Rawat

Never Lost, a song by Prem Rawat

 

Misleading article in The Independent abour prescribed cannabis in the UK

 Personal comment:  the headline says warning to millions after the death of one person after taking prescription cannabis - not caused by cannabis.

One small detail says it all: " Mr Robinson, from Bury, died in 2023 after taking his own life.".

Whilst I have every sympathy with Mr Robinson's family and friends, this sad death is hardly justification to warn "millions" or change the law to create greater hurdles between all those that clearly benefit from this remarkable plant.

After all, consider the number of sad suicides that occur after alcohol consumption as well as accidental death and or injury, a substance that is easily purchased in any amount and legal to produce at home.  Then there's the number of deaths, accidental and suicidal, caused by over consumption of prescribed pills.

UK: Experts issue medical cannabis warning to millions of Britons

Jane Kirby

The Independent

Wednesday 07 Oct 2026

There are now calls for ‘Oliver’s Law’ to tighten up regulation on prescribing medicinal cannabis after the death of Oliver Robinson, 34

Nearly two million unlicensed cannabis items were prescribed privately in England over the past 12 months according to new figures, prompting a warning over potential risks to patients.

England’s patient safety commissioner Professor Henrietta Hughes said that immediate measures are required to safeguard people purchasing medical cannabis on online platforms.

The statistics, published by the NHS Business Services Authority, track how often privately dispensed, unlicensed cannabis products featured on prescriptions across the country.

Between June 2025 and May this year, a total of 1,967,268 such items were issued, marking a significant increase compared to figures from earlier years.

Data recorded for 2024 showed 659,293 items dispensed, rising from 282,920 during the preceding 12-month period.

Cannabis flower accounted for three-quarters of the prescriptions issued in 2025/26, with the remainder consisting of liquid vape cartridges, gummies, drops and oils.

What does the law say?

A 2018 change in the law made it legal to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use in the UK.

While a small number of patients can obtain the drug on the NHS, most of the products dispensed are unlicensed and prescribed by private clinics.

Medical cannabis is marketed as being able to treat a range of conditions, from anxiety, depression and ADHD, through to chronic pain, migraines and Crohn’s disease.

While a small number of patients can obtain the drug on the NHS, most of the products dispensed are unlicensed and prescribed by private clinics (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

The drugs can only be prescribed by or under the direction of a doctor who is on the specialist register of the General Medical Council (GMC).

Prof Hughes said there was a need to tighten up the rules around prescribing and look out for people who could be harmed.

She said: “The growth of medicinal cannabis prescribing has outpaced the systems needed to ensure patient safety.

“This is not about whether these medicines should be available to patients who may benefit from them.

“It is about making sure the safeguards around prescribing are strong enough to identify risks early and prevent avoidable harm.”

Prof Hughes said the 2018 law change was “made with the intention that a small number of highly specialised doctors would be able to prescribe to a small cohort of patients”.

But prescription numbers have risen dramatically since then.

Death of Oliver Robinson

Earlier this year, Catherine McKenna, area coroner for Manchester North, wrote a prevention of future deaths report into the death of Oliver Robinson, 34.

Mr Robinson, from Bury, died in 2023 after taking his own life. A jury found this was “as a means of communicating distress rather than with an intention to end his life”.

The coroner’s report said he had a psychological dependence on cannabis, which he was obtaining both illegally and through prescription from the private clinic, Curaleaf, to treat depression.

In her letter, the coroner said “treatment options had not been exhausted at the time that medicinal cannabis was prescribed” and “Curaleaf’s initial prescribing decision was based on an out-of-date GP summary care record and without the knowledge” that Mr Robinson was also under the care of another consultant.

Oliver Robinson passed away in 2023 (PA)

Even when Curaleaf became aware, it did not communicate directly with the other doctors about Mr Robinson’s care, she said.

She added: “The continuation of prescriptions for medicinal cannabis acted as an obstacle to Oliver receiving appropriate psychiatric and addictions care.”

Mr Robinson’s brother, Alexander, is now calling for “Oliver’s Law” to tighten up regulation on prescribing medicinal cannabis, particularly to mental health patients.

Prof Hughes said she believed there was a need to look closely at prescribing and information-sharing.

“We have a siloed health system that is not working together effectively enough,” she said.

“Responsibility is spread across multiple organisations, creating gaps in information and oversight, where warning signs are missed and leaving patients at risk of harm.

“The immediate priority is to strengthen co-ordination between regulators and to ensure that remote prescribing is carried out to the same high standards of professional practice that we expect in clinical settings.

“We also need a more joined-up system that can identify emerging risks, monitor prescribing patterns and intervene earlier where patient safety concerns arise.

“Given the pace of growth in this market and the concerns that have already been raised, this work is urgent.

Medical cannabis is marketed as being able to treat a range of conditions, from anxiety, depression and ADHD, through to chronic pain, migraines and Crohn’s disease 

“We shouldn’t wait for more people to experience avoidable harm to put stronger safeguards in place.”

Alexander Robinson said he agreed the “market was growing far faster than the safeguards meant to protect patients”.

He said: “Clinics are promoted on television, on the Underground and through social media influencers. Products are catalogued online like consumer goods.

“Oliver was prescribed high-strength cannabis after a single video consultation.

“I am not against access for patients who benefit. I am asking for the basic safeguards Oliver didn’t have: proper specialist assessment, contact with a patient’s existing doctors, monitoring for dependency, scrutiny of the highest-volume prescribers and clear rules on advertising.

“The patient safety commissioner is right that this is urgent. No other family should have to go through what we have.”

A spokesperson for Curaleaf Clinic said patient safety “is something we take extremely seriously”.

They added: “Medicinal cannabis prescribing is subject to established professional and regulatory standards, which we comply with in full.

“We have strengthened the clinical information available to our doctors and how we communicate with other healthcare teams, particularly mental health teams. As the sector evolves, we have the clinical processes in place to provide safe, high-quality care to our patients.

“We support better information-sharing and greater collaboration across the healthcare system to help ensure patients receive joined-up care.”

A Government spokesperson said: “As with any medicine, including unlicensed cannabis-based products prescribed for medicinal use, patients should follow the advice of their healthcare professional and the information provided with their medication.”

Professor Mike Barnes, chairman of the Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society, said it had developed its good practice guide “to provide a clear framework for safe, responsible prescribing, including thorough patient assessment, peer review, careful documentation, appropriate follow-up and clinician training – principles that align closely with the expectations set out by the Care Quality Commission”.

He added: “We are also encouraging clinics to demonstrate that these standards are embedded consistently across their services through our clinic commitment to good practice initiative.

“As the sector grows, it needs to mature with the same focus on governance, accountability and patient safety that we would expect in any other area of medicine.”

The Hypermarket of Life

Think of your life as being in a giant hypermarket for a limited amount of time, you don't know how long but his everything you want available, good and bad stuff food, clothes , toys and gadgets, music and videos, cars even holidays, partners and even FB. you can sample and consume it all but when the bell rings you have to leave and all you can take is the feeling of the memories of what you did. 

Just remember that not everything that is pleasant is good! 

So what you going to do? 

 Moan and complain or make the best of it? 

Maybe the first thing should be to find out who you are and what you really want. 

It may be that you are the manager!

 

The Travellers' Trick - a song with words by Alun Buffry

 

I wrote this in 1985 in Pokhara, Nepal - here are the original words, music and vocals by ai to produce this song

THE TRAVELLERS' TRICK

As the Mind flies so the Bird walks to the mountain, OR Zen and the Art of Being Lazy

(a postcard from Pokhara)

by Alun Buffry

Today, outside, the weather is hazy.

Stayed in all day, feeling quite lazy.

Where to go now, we talk and talk,

Then decide it's too far to walk.

Two hours there and two hours back,

"Let's stay right here, and have a snack".

Just fifteen minutes to Cafe Baba.

And we know that there, food's better by far,

but here we eat, for our stomachs sake,

whatever's handy, whatever's easy to make.

"Well", I say, "I guess that's what

A holiday's for on a day that's hot."

"We're free, we don't have to do a thing.

We can fly like a bird with a broken wing."

"How can that be, such a bird can't fly?"

"We can't do much either and here is why-

'Cos - cor it's hot outside today you see,

And wherever we go costs a fee",

Or "My leg's aching, my knee feels weak,

there's nothing in the bazaar we seek."

"Stomach queasy, or head aching?

Let's be another chillum, I'm Making."

Then, "Let's go for a boatride!"

"No, I won't row!"

"Let's climb that mountain, look at the snow!"

Oh, if only we could get up there and back,

Without walking the whole mountain track.

If you close your eyes and lay on your bed,

You can go anywhere inside your head.

If you know how to master the Traveller's Trick,

You'll be there in an instant and back just as quick.

Close your eyes, let the whole world spin,

The Journey's done before you begin.

 Photo is of "Moses", a guide at Giza 1989

Moses, Dudimose, and the Proposed Exodus Chronology

Introduction

The Egyptian pharaoh you were referring to is Dudimose (also called Dedumose), rather than Thutmose.

Dudimose is significant because a minority historical reconstruction, particularly David Rohl's “New Chronology,” proposes that Dudimose was the Egyptian pharaoh associated with the biblical Exodus. This reconstruction places the Exodus roughly 200–300 years before the reign of Ramesses II, rather than during the traditional “Ramesside” setting often proposed for the Exodus.

It is important to distinguish this reconstruction from the conventional chronology used by most Egyptologists. The Dudimose identification depends upon substantially revising Egyptian chronology.

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1. Who was Dudimose?

Dudimose/Dedumose was an Egyptian king associated with the troubled period between the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period.

His exact chronological position is disputed, and different chronological systems place him considerably differently.

The significance of Dudimose for the Exodus question comes from an attempt to connect him with Tutimaeus/Tutimaios, a king mentioned in the Egyptian historical tradition preserved by the later Egyptian priest Manetho.

David Rohl argues that this figure can be connected with Dudimose and that the political circumstances surrounding the end of his reign fit the biblical Exodus.

This identification is not accepted as established fact by mainstream Egyptology.

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2. Moses and Sobekhotep IV

One of the most interesting parts of Rohl's reconstruction is the proposed identification of Khaneferre Sobekhotep IV with the Egyptian ruler during the early part of Moses' life.

The proposed sequence is:

Sobekhotep IV
↓
Moses is raised in Pharaoh's household
↓
Moses kills an Egyptian
↓
Moses flees Egypt
↓
Moses spends 40 years in Midian
↓
Dudimose becomes Pharaoh
↓
Moses returns to Egypt
↓
The Ten Plagues
↓
The Exodus

The biblical account states that Moses spent forty years in Midian before returning to Egypt.

Rohl uses that biblical period as an important chronological bridge between the proposed reign of Sobekhotep IV and the proposed reign of Dudimose.

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3. Proposed chronology

Under Rohl's New Chronology, the approximate reconstruction is:

Approx. date BCE	Person/Event	Proposed connection
~1670	Joseph	Joseph rises to power in Egypt
Later	Israelites multiply	Israel becomes a large population in Egypt
~1568–1563	Sobekhotep III	Proposed period of increasing oppression
~1530–1508	Sobekhotep IV	Proposed Pharaoh during Moses' early life
~1508	Moses flees Egypt	Beginning of the 40 years in Midian
~1508–1468	Moses in Midian	Biblical 40-year period
~1450–1446	Dudimose	Proposed Exodus Pharaoh
~1447	Exodus	Israel leaves Egypt

These dates belong to Rohl's reconstruction rather than the conventional Egyptian chronology.

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4. Joseph in the reconstruction

Rohl's reconstruction attempts to place Joseph much later than conventional Egyptian chronology normally does.

Joseph is placed around 1670 BCE.

The proposed sequence is:

Joseph arrives in Egypt
→
Joseph becomes a powerful administrator
→
Egypt experiences famine
→
Jacob's family settles in Egypt
→
Israel's population grows
→
A later Pharaoh no longer regards the Israelites favourably
→
Israel becomes enslaved
→
Moses is eventually born.

This is an attempt to connect the biblical narrative with Egyptian political history rather than treating the biblical chronology and Egyptian chronology as completely separate systems.

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5. Moses' 40 years in Midian

The forty years are particularly important to the Dudimose theory.

The biblical narrative gives Moses three major periods of his life:

40 years in Egypt

↓

40 years in Midian

↓

40 years leading Israel

The first transition occurs when Moses flees Egypt.

According to the Rohl reconstruction, this flight occurs during the reign of Sobekhotep IV.

Moses then spends approximately forty years in Midian.

He subsequently returns to Egypt during the reign of Dudimose.

This creates a chronological relationship:

Sobekhotep IV → 40 years → Dudimose

That is one of the principal reasons Rohl's reconstruction is attractive to people looking for a specific Pharaoh associated with Moses.

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6. Dudimose as the Exodus Pharaoh

The proposed identification is:

Dudimose = Exodus Pharaoh

The argument is not based on an inscription saying that Dudimose was Moses' Pharaoh. No such inscription is known.

Instead, the argument is based on chronology and correlations between different historical traditions.

The proposed reasoning is roughly:

1. Moses lived in Egypt.

2. Moses was associated with Pharaoh's household.

3. Moses fled Egypt.

4. He spent forty years away.

5. He returned to Egypt.

6. Egypt subsequently experienced the events described in Exodus.

7. Dudimose's reign occurs at approximately the proposed date.

8. The end of this period is associated with major political changes in Egypt.

9. Manetho preserves a tradition involving a ruler called Tutimaeus/Tutimaios and a period of foreign domination/expulsion.

10. Rohl proposes that this tradition can be connected with Dudimose and the Exodus.

The identification is therefore a historical reconstruction, rather than something directly demonstrated by an Egyptian inscription.

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7. Manetho and Tutimaeus

The Egyptian priest Manetho, writing many centuries after the events traditionally attributed to Moses, produced a history of Egypt.

His work survives mainly through quotations by later writers, particularly Josephus and other ancient authors.

Manetho's account contains a king called Tutimaeus/Tutimaios in connection with the Hyksos period and the loss of Egyptian control.

Rohl proposes that this name can be connected with Dudimose.

If that identification were correct, it could potentially provide an Egyptian historical tradition corresponding to the political upheaval described in Exodus.

However, there are significant uncertainties:

• Manetho wrote much later than the supposed Exodus.

• His original work has not survived intact.

• His chronology is complicated.

• The identification of Tutimaeus with Dudimose is disputed.

• The connection between Manetho's account and the biblical Exodus is an interpretation rather than an established historical fact.

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8. The Hyksos

The Hyksos are another important part of the discussion.

They were foreign rulers who controlled significant parts of northern Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period.

The conventional Egyptian chronology places the Hyksos period considerably earlier than the proposed date of the Exodus in Rohl's reconstruction.

Rohl's New Chronology moves parts of Egyptian history relative to conventional chronology.

This allows him to create a different sequence in which the biblical Exodus and Egyptian political upheaval can be brought closer together.

The relationship between:

Israelites → Exodus → Canaan → Hyksos

is therefore one of the major chronological questions in the debate.

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9. Why Ramesses II is often proposed instead

A more familiar Exodus theory places the event in the 13th century BCE, during or around the reign of Ramesses II.

One reason is that Exodus 1:11 refers to the Israelites building the store cities Pithom and Raamses.

Because the name “Raamses” resembles Ramesses, some interpreters associate the Exodus with the Ramesside period.

That produces a substantially later chronology than the Dudimose theory.

The two broad models can therefore be represented as:

Earlier Exodus model

~15th century BCE

Sobekhotep IV
↓
Moses flees
↓
40 years
↓
Dudimose
↓
Exodus

Later Exodus model

~13th century BCE

Ramesside Egypt
↓
Israelite oppression
↓
Moses
↓
Exodus

The existence of the place-name “Raamses” is one reason the later model has traditionally received considerable attention.

However, place names can have complicated histories, and the presence of “Raamses” in the biblical text does not by itself establish the identity of the Exodus Pharaoh.

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10. The major chronological problem

The biggest issue with the Dudimose theory is that mainstream Egyptian chronology does not place these rulers in the sequence proposed by Rohl.

Rohl's New Chronology substantially revises the conventional dates of Egyptian history.

Consequently, accepting:

Sobekhotep IV → Moses → Dudimose → Exodus

requires accepting a much broader chronological reconstruction.

This is why the question cannot simply be answered:

“Dudimose ruled around 1450 BCE, therefore he was Moses' Pharaoh.”

That statement would present a dispute

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GRAIN - the new pill is coming

 

So next year they are going to try to force everyone to take a GRAIN pill. it stands for general release ai nanites. just one pill a year and these tiny naites will replicate and spread throughout your system and detect things like cancer cells and destroy them, lower cholesterol, remove blockages in the arteries preventing strokes and heart attacks, repair damaged bones due to arthritis, heal cuts and bruises ten times faster, neutalise acidity preventing problems with digestion, ulcers and constipation, repair damaged caused by problems such as MS, prevent colds, flu and COVID, prevent hangovers from alcohol and much more. 

Will you take it, just once a year, Free of charge, although taxes may increase. most doctors surgeries will be closed and only accidents and emergency in hospital will be free and average life expectancy for the over forties will increase by ten to twenty years and for younger people by up to 200

Children will be given the pill in schools and babies at birth. we may have to have a few wars to reduce the population and couples will only be allowed two children 

 

Of course I just made all that up. But something like that is on the way, thanks to ai and the corrupt tyrants that run it, like our government.

Scientists Just Found Evidence That Ancient Egypt Had a Female King 5,000 Years Ago

Scientists Just Found Evidence That Ancient Egypt Had a Female King 5,000 Years Ago

 

Vice,  By Luis Prada, September 21, 2026

Over 5,000 years ago, a royal named Meretneith was the big boss of ancient Egypt. She was long known as a major player during the First Dynasty, which scientists figured out because her tomb was loaded with enough gold and rich stuff to put her on par with male pharaohs. But just how important she was during her time wasn’t exactly known.

Now, according to new research published in Prague Egyptological Studies, she was pretty important because she was a full-blown King of Egypt. 

The discovery started with an old black-and-white picture of a mud jar stopper dating back to the 1940s. An Egyptologist named Walter B. Emery found 13 of those stoppers in Saqqara, an Egyptian village home to an ancient mausoleum filled with Egyptian royalty. He claimed the hieroglyphs featured Meretneith’s name wrapped in a serekh, the official royal emblem reserved exclusively for legitimate rulers. Academics have long argued that the photo quality was simply too terrible to make such a definitive claim. Modern researchers just proved Emery right. Scientists Enhanced an Old Photograph and Discovered an Ancient Egyptian King Was a Woman

The research team partnered with a digital technician at Macquarie University to clean up the blurry picture to give themselves a crisp and clear view of the ancient ink. The results confirmed that Emery was right — Meretneith shared the same royal mark as male kings, meaning that she was a king herself, not just some power player sitting on the sidelines watching someone else rule.

This makes Meretneith the second recorded female ruler in Egyptian history to sport the serekh. Her rule was pretty interesting in itself, as she shifted roles from co-regent alongside King Djer to an interim ruler to the mother of another king. She was Girl Boss-ing it long before that cringy term ever existed, which she would have actively rejected anyway, since part of what makes her fascinating is that the researchers say she actively rejected the common titles associated with governing.

LIBERATION: A Song with words by Alun Buffry