Loganathan and Sivakumar's Baum Test and why students fail in exams.
I now want bring to your attention the occurrence of secondary school children who, while excelling in their studies earlier, but as they reach the age of 17 or thereabouts slowly begin to decline for reasons unknown to themselves or even the teachers. Sometimes the matter becomes so serious for the caring parents that they seek even psychiatric help.
The subjects that I have isolated for mention here are usually very bright and are capable of very intelligent conversation but who slowly decline. This problem is also seen to occur among both the boys and girls with typical characteristic Baum features of their own. I came about this finding after years of my research using Loganathan and Sivakumar's Baum Test.
The girls tend to draw the following type of Baums particularly in Baum C and D.
As you observe the Baums from A to D, you can see a general TREND where the portion above the ground becomes LESS and LESS while that BELOW the ground become MORE and MORE prominent. Finally the whole Baum goes underground with globular fruit-like things hanging on creepers BENEATH the ground.
These students while being very intelligent initially but decline because they slowly lose their capacity to pay attention to what is being taught by the teacher. They have the habit of SWITCHING OFF halfway and let their mind wander into a world of fantasies. Their cognitive processing is dissociated from classroom context and gets trapped into the inner world of ideas that quite often, the subjects are aware but are unable to do anything about. They feel helpless. They suffer from some kind of mental paralysis. Their preoccupation with the inner world as opposed to the outer world becomes almost an obsession. Because of this there comes to prevail DISINTERESTEDNESS in classroom interactions and other social activities. They tend to withdraw from both the physical and social world because of their ENCHANTMENT with the inner world of fantasies.
In my conversations with them I also learned that such subjects are AWARE of such developments within themselves but feel they cannot do anything about it except to worry . Frequently they also feel frightened because of loss of control over their own thought processes. They feel they are being trapped into a strange world of fantasy but are unable to escape from it.
Now the central question is : Why is the slow disappearance away from the open world ABOVE the ground into the hidden world BELOW the ground?
Unless we get an adequate explanation of this change in cognitive processing of the affected individual, we cannot solve the problem and help the students to recover what they have lost.
I have dealt with it extensively and rather technically in the paper 'Tantric Psychology, Personality Types and Siddha Medical Science' but I shall mention the central notions here briefly.
The human psyche is always being pulled by fundamental metaphysical entities of Natham (Yang) and Bindhu (Yin) separately and jointly. The psychic pressures established by Natham brings about cognitive processes of the thinking and analysing type (Ida kalai Nadi) and that of Bindhu, the feeling and emotional type (Pingkalai Nadi). The joint functioning of both Natham and Bindhu brings about cognitive processing of the ILLUMINATING TYPE that also simultaneously destroys the IGNORANCE already there.(Suzi munai Nadi). Here I must mention that the Idakalai are enunciated by Natham (YANG) and Pingkalai by Bindhu (YIN ) and suzimunai by their joint presence.
Now when the Baums gradually go underground, it means their psychic functioning is pulled deep into the PINGKALAI i.e. to the exclusive dominace of Bindhu which on its own breeds the cancer of the cognitive: the uncontrollable and excessive production of ideas and fantasies. The Natham (Yang) is that which CONTROLS and regulates and puts an ORDER or LOGIC into thinking. One can link up this with Freudian REALITY principle. When the STRONG presence of Yang, the Animus is eliminated for some reason or other, we have BAUMS of the above type with what can be called the cancer of the cognitive.
The treatment then consists in doing something that would RESTORE the presence of NATHAM (Yang) in their psychic functioning. This consists in creating situations in which the courage and bravery of the subject are put to test and he/she is made to respond AGGRESSIVELY. Such induced aggressions serve to restore Natham and hence the Masculinity that comes along with it.
Ullaganar
Former lecturer of University Science Malaysia.
Editing by Ari Marappan
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