The latest edition of Current Science has an interesting article wherein it was published that the Tamsic, Raajsic and Saatvik foods (Ayurvedic classification) is actually scientific! Saatvic food was found to be high in nutrints while Tamsic food was found to be low in the same - statistically.
A few years ago, Astrology as a branch of science was introduced in the UK - albeit draped under controversies...
So why not Palmistry?
There is the life line and the heart line and the head line (no pun intended!) and so many minor lines and the monts of venus, jupiter and saturn and moon which mean so much to the palmist but not to us.
I wondered for a while if there was any sense in it. I read a few books here and there, but basically paid more attention to what palmists were saying about people I knew. What I found was this - palmistry may not predict one's future with a remarkable accuracy, but there seemingly was a remarkable precision with which a person's general tendency was predicted! I man about their behaviour and character.
For instance, people with bent head lines tended to have a morose dispostion and even suicidal. People with 'islands' in their heart lines tended to have troublesome love lives. People with many lines in their palms tended to be think a lot - etc etc.
What I am wondering is, is it possible to give all these observations a quantitative (and not qualitative) and statistical basis?
For instance, can't there be a measure of the degree of the bent of the head line (yes, with a ruler and a protractor) to correspond with the degree of morosity (negative thoughts to perpetual depression to abso suicidal). Sounds silly?
Or a measure of the number of lines (that is easy - take a magnifying glass and count) with the tendency to think (difficult to quantitize, but am sure a psychiatrist will come up with some measure)?
Or a measure of the area covered by the Mont of Venus and correlate it with the person's wealth? (Imagine Income Tax officers roaming about with inch tapes - lol ;) )
Or a measure of the Mont of Jupiter and the persons's IQ?
Or a measure of the Life line and its correlation with life - though this is a controversial aspect in Palmistry as well.
I do believe all this is doable, you know? It will just take a team effort of palmists, statisticians and pychologists and voila, perhaps we shall be having Palmistry as one branch of Science in no time and the roadside palmists shall give me a percentage of their income (they will earn much in their new career as lectureres, now won't they) as reward. Eh What?
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tht's a intresting idea there u having.. could be done .. wid a lot of research of course... in the case of palimistry there are just so many variables which has to be talken in relation wid others, such as the hand type .. fingures, nails .. color... and as u hv mentioned the lines wid there length, begining and end. and how they bend.... get some thousands of sample hands... feed... it to a super comp ...then it may yield smthing..
yup...since similar projects on Ayureda are going on in CSIR labs and elsewhere, i dont think it will be too much of a prob if a senior scientist takes it on him to do somethng abt it...
theres some sense in palmistry is what i got to know from watching a program of the raashichakra fellow if you have hard of him forgot his name. in the bit of explaination that he gave for the conclusions he reaches, he said that palmistry aint all about lines but also colour of the hands and stuff as well. dont know the exactarguement he gave, sorry about that but it was quite convincing. the rest sadly he did not explain.
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