{"id":116138,"date":"2021-07-15T15:58:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116138"},"modified":"2021-07-15T15:58:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:58:42","slug":"ronald-senaratne-the-ambitious-psychoanalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/15\/ronald-senaratne-the-ambitious-psychoanalyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Senaratne – The Ambitious Psychoanalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Ronald Senaratne in action\nwith an Indian Actress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ronald\nSenaratne was a self-made psychoanalyst. He became popular among the Indian\nfolk in London especially, who believed in ‘Chakras’ in the human body, which\nare various focal points. He travelled to the U.K. for the first time in 1988.\nNews spread among the Sri Lankan and Indian communities about a mystic\npractitioner’s presence in London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His Unique\nTechnique<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\nadopted a unique technique by walking into ‘Indian Corner shops’ in London and\nstudying the Cashier’s eyes, to reveal a recent incident the Cashier had\nexperienced. Ronald placed his thumb on the\nCashier’s forehead next and said something else to\nconfuse him! When the Cashier wanted to know how it was\ndone, Ronald touched the victim’s right\nthumb with his right hand and revealed another problem of\nthe Cashier. Afterwards, he said: ” I am\na psychoanalyst, and if you need any more information, the reading will cost\nyou \u00a310\/-“<\/em><\/strong>  So, those who were convinced paid and got\nindividual readings. Ronald managed to live in England out of the money he\nearned out of such assignments. Seemingly he became a regular visitor to London\nas his clientele grew. Ronald visited Germany, the US\nand France when his clients sponsored him. He had no problem obtaining a visa\nto other countries because of his sponsorships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writer first met him at the\n MCC Cricket Grounds at  Lord’s. During the  initial\nconversation, the writer gathered that at the age of 15, Ronald had researched\ninto the universal powers of pre-historic Hela Yakka<\/em> that\ndeveloped over generations covering Ravana, Vibhishana , Pulasthi<\/em><\/strong>\netc. Through meditation he acquired how the invisible forces helped him to\nenergise his subconscious mind. That led him to \ndevelop a unique way of touching various Chakras in a recipient\u2019s body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also acquired\nknowledge through Ramayana and folk stories in Sri Lanka. He\nseemingly developed a unique technique of touching various chakras<\/em> in\na person’s body to come out with the recipients’ problems. This experience of\ntapping into the invisible forces helped him energise his subconscious mind. A\nbook on  Astral bodies and human aura by Lombasam Lomba  further\nhelped him delve into palmistry, psychic reading, hypnotherapy,\nclairvoyance, and numerology<\/em> and use in his day-to-day activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\n1979  he worked in Laksala<\/em><\/strong>  (Fort) Branch and was\nchosen as the  Sri Lankan Representative to represent Laksala<\/em><\/strong>\nin the Frankfurt International exhibition. He proceeded from Franckfurt to\nFrance and met with the Sri Lankan Ambassador, Tissa Wijeratne, who introduced\nhim to many personalities in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact with British politicians<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

En\nroute to Sri Lanka, via England, he was introduced to the Leader of the then\nLiberal Party, the late Jeremy Thorpe, through a friend of Tissa Wijeratne.\nTissa Wijeratne’s friend also introduced  Ronald to the late Dame Margret\nThatcher. He predicted that  Mrs Margaret Thatcher  would become\n‘the Prime Minister of England with a landslide victory and would hold that\nposition  for over ten years!’<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During\nthe U.K. elections in 1979, Margret Thatcher won a landslide victory for the\nConservative party. She was elected as the Prime Minister and continued for\nover ten years. Later she wrote a personal note to Ronald appreciating his\nlatent talents. He always complimented  Thatcher akin to the Ancient\nMariner in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem – ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/em>.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerning\nJeromy Thorpe, Ronald prophesied that the opposition leader in the British\nParliament would get involved in an embarrassing court case, but it would be acquitted of all allegations. Nevertheless, Ronald could see\nJerome Thorpe’s political career would be in danger!  A few years later,\nRonald prediction came true, and  Jeremy Thorpe faced trial on a\nscandalous homosexual accusation. Although he was acquitted, he lost his party\nleadership and disappeared from the political scene forever. Jeromy Thorpe, too\nwrote to Ronald, much after the\ncourt case, thanking him for his predictions.  Ronald\nused such letters to his advantage and exhibited those to whoever was cynical\nabout his tactile approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ronald\nSenaratne predicted that Sirimavo Bandaranaike<\/em> would lose her political\nand social freedom and equality when J.R. Jayawardena,  as President of\nSri Lanka, imposed a complete ban on her civil rights. Despite her losing her\ncase, Ronald Senaratne also predicted that she would shine again in politics.\nLater, she became the Prime Minister again.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Psycho-analytical\nsojourns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\naccurate predictions on two staunch British politicians encouraged Ronald\nSenaratne to delve into the subject in a much deeper sense, thereby developing\nnew contacts in many parts of the West, especially in the US. He received\ninvitations to visit foreign countries with a promise to afford him free board and\nlodging. That enabled him to see the West, India and the US annually. He called\nsuch travels psycho-analytical sojourns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tactile phenomenon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nan unpredictable tactile phenomenon, he could divulge many controversial facts\nin front of the recipient’s eyes, irrespective of one’s social background, that\nshocked many seekers and became  dumbfounded in front of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His\nmotto was, “seeing is believing<\/em><\/strong>“, “touch is\nfascinating and real<\/em><\/strong>“, and “practical experience is\nnature consciousness”.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

tilakfernando@gmail.com

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