The following is a cut-n-paste of something forwarded to my email at home. Can one of you Rabbis please shed some light on this please? Something doesn't seem quite right. I know names ARE important, but are they going too far? Or is there something here I do not understand and nee to follow up on?:

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1. Question and Answer by Mr. Alfred J. Parker
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Question:

When one changes one's name to create more
constructive conditions in one's life, is it the sound
vibrations of the name or just the psychological influence
that affects the individual's brain cells and changes
the life pattern?

- answered by Mr. Alfred J., Parker
founder of the Kabalarian Philosophy
taken from a taped class circa 1960.

Answer:

The influence of the change goes deeper than
its effect upon the sense of hearing, although sound
plays a very vital role in life. It manifests through
the principle of mathematics, which is the dimensional
law through which all forms of life come into being.
Of course, there is form that is not discernible through
the eyesight, for instance, energies, sound, odour,
and gases; there are light vibrations that mankind cannot
discern through the sense of sight; and there are
emanations or vibrations given off by minerals and
other forms of life. The Kabalarian Philosophy
concentrates its theory of name influence upon the
conscious form of life called mind; it too is form,
but of a more abstract nature; i.e., mind is better
understood as a spiritual power that, through
involution, has become a conscious channel of
expression through which abstract or spiritual
forces of consciousness may manifest thoughts,
experiences, language, and concept through brain
impressions. Mathematics measures and defines these
different planes of manifestation and, in the case
of mind, it classifies the many dimensions of thought
and discloses the spiritual power and influence
behind or comprising each letter.

Each number or letter is a certain gradation in the
scale of being or mathematics; thus, when a name
is attached to the brain cells of an individual
through the law of association, the individual and
collective impressions or vibration of the letters
are registered upon the brain cells, thereby creating
a specific degree of intelligence relative to the
combination of letters. A person without sight,
hearing, or speech reacts to his name and becomes
the exact type of intelligence relative to the name
vibrations, provided his brain can be reached
through a touch system of the alphabet. A person
living alone in the woods all his life and not hearing
the vibrations of his name would still exactly personify
the characteristics of his name, and his bodily functions
would register the sickness relative to the particular
name combination.

You see, mathematics is not only a
means of measurement of quantity, but is also a
measurement of spiritual values; it is the law through
which God the cause becomes effect through language.
Although mathematics may be used as a measuring stick
to determine the nature and dimension of materiality,
each number and letter symbolizes a divine power unto
itself; it must be a divine power to create intelligent
measurement and analysis. Through analysis, one's mind
may be revealed.

The Kabalarian Principle of name change is not based
upon euphony, but upon the actual vibrations of
intelligence as expressed through mathematics and
language attached to the brain cells, through association
to create a human mental existence. The keys on a piano
do not create a concerto but they set in motion the
vibration of sounds emitted by the strings but controlled by
the notes: A,B,C,D, etc.

A phrase that the former Rav of our Shul used to use in such situations springs to mind: "Sh'tus mit lokshen!"

In plain english, Bull Crop!!!!

And just like putting notes together and creating an "understandable" sound (oriental cultures have combinations of sounds that are not quite understandable to the western ear/brain) ytou can put words together and make believe they sound deep and make sense but in fact they create non-sensical sentences.

Good sounding words with absolute no reference to hold on to for us to understand and give sense to. How do slithy toves gyre? when, in the morning? and when they gimble do they do it alone, high, low, if so how high? NONSENSE.

Here is an example. A poem called Jabberwocky
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

'And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

there is something to names (though I doubt sounds) as Nabal fulfilled his own name.

Reb Yisroel, there is a question regarding aveilut and gerut. You might be able to enlighten.
Can a ger say Kaddish for his deceased parents?

Gut Shabbos all! "see" you on Sunday!

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Originally posted by Boruch Tzvi:
Reb Yisroel, there is a question regarding aveilut and gerut. You might be able to enlighten.
Can a ger say Kaddish for his deceased parents?

Are they Jewish or non-Jewish?

Actually, whether or not the parents are Jewish, a Ger may recite Kaddish for them (see Yechaveh Da'at Vol. 6 Siman 60).