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Time to rethink

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I’ve been thinking a fair bit today.

After going on what now feels like a mini verbal rampage over at Merovee, I feel strangely ashamed. It’s like I almost went over there to blow off some steam. I am actually very lucky in my life & yet we all carry fears & uncertainties around with us. It feels slightly seedy. Like a kind of on-line brothel for the soul. Where one can vent one’s worst fears once in a while. A needed release in a seemingly ever more tense & chaotic world. Should you ever see this … Thanks Frank, Viktor & all the other great people there

That set me thinking about the Internet as a whole. There’s so much negativity & fear on line but when one goes out into the “real world” it all melts away & life (where I am lucky enough to live) seems as calm & as steady as ever. It’s easy to get sucked into “narratives of doom” on line but I always try & ground myself. I watch the animals. I look at the trees & plants & lastly I look at the people.

I’ve noticed a funny thing.

People who don’t go on line are totally oblivious to the supposed “collapse of the Planet” that we see constantly touted on line. The young children look as vibrant & as lively as they ever have, not distressed, not diseased & by & large people seem fine. There’s food in the Super-Markets, loads of it … no sign of “collapse” there … obviously I am very lucky to live in a part of the world that is, as yet, relatively untouched by the crisis engulfing other parts of our Planet.

So what then is going on? It’s almost like two parallel worlds literally.

Out “there” (in my local environment) all is calm & yet in “here” (the on line world) so much is in turmoil?  But the reverse is also true – in here (my local vicinity) all is calm & yet out there … (in the wider world) is much chaos & suffering. (witness Syria or Venezuela ) The thing about the World is that in a sense, all things are happening at once, what I mean by that is that if you think of it as one huge equation within an information field then all combinations of the action & “players” happening at one time must in a sense happen when they do, as they are all a result of every preceding action through the fabric of time leading up to that point (combined with perhaps a smidgen of free will thrown in but free will broadly within the confines of what is possible within ones limited field of action, for instance, I can’t suddenly beam myself physically to another country, or I can’t suddenly engage in a one to one conversation with someone famous who doesn’t even know that I exist but I can decide whether to carry on typing these thoughts out or not & I can engage my imagination)

The Internet is a funny thing. It feels so private & yet it is public. That feeling of privacy & intimacy encourages us to express much more openly our deep & hidden fears & to explore our most intimate & hidden desires (through pornography etc.) as it “feels” private – almost like a modern day “confessional” & yet it is far from “private”.

Leaving aside the question of A.I. for the moment. If we think about it the Internet is literally a load of inter-connected biological brains all communicating together almost like telepathy. All communicating their deepest fears & concerns & their wildest speculations. In a way it is like the dark subconscious mind of collective man. (men & womb men both)

We influence each other & egg each other on to ever more wild speculations & deeper contemplations & so we collectively go ever more slightly crazy but at the same time our perspective widens considerably to take on more & more of a view of the “whole” than we ever thought possible & so we feel ourselves changing. Hopefully we feel our understanding & empathy for our fellow man increase along the way. How i wish that was true, alas, the opposite seems to often occur. Yet, in reality, all is always in flux, atheists become theists & theists become atheists, the tolerant become the intolerant & the youthful radical eventually become (at least declared by others) the  reactionary – witness recent events with Jermaine Greer or Peter Thatchell for instance.

The Internet, whether it be a blog or a video, a news site or anywhere else encourages us to give freely of ourselves – to share, our knowledge, our ideas, the idea being that “progress” becomes exponential as Ray Kurzweil & others have predicted.

And yet far from being in any way private really we are literally handing the best, the worst & all the rest of ourselves, over to companies like Google & Facebook & WordPress for them to literally mine our minds. Now one could argue that data in formation & stories are the real stuff of immortality. The stuff that outlasts our biological “space-suits”.

We are still telling stories to each other that are over two thousand years old – the living word – quite literally of our ancestors. So our stories outlast our selves by a long chalk. And ironically we, living breathing biological beings, hand over our “data” to “dead” corporations to hold in perpetuity. These corporations are literally “mining” our minds & will perhaps outlast our individuality. And yet these companies themselves are “dead” lifeless things (corp – orations) without at least some form of sentience

I have many things that I have learnt over my life time. Though I am just one unremarkable human amongst the billions of us. When I read someone like Gildas or Bede it feels like a form of Time Travel. The living word of the long dead mind / mined comes down to me through the ages & speaks to me directly. The thoughts thought by someone centuries ago literally talk to me. And that persons thoughts  literally live once again through me as I read

How beautiful & transcendent is that?

We are all a part of this process & passing on any small wisdom that my “wizened wise dome” might have collected in my 50 + years on Planet Earth is what this blog is supposed to be about. i feel that I sort of have a duty to pass on my observations but it’s a strange feeling sharing your most private thoughts to potentially prying “I’s” about whom one knows absolutely nothing. It makes me feel vulnerable like my thoughts are no longer strictly my own. It’s inherently risky. It also garners in me some sympathy for our Political classes & celebrities. It can’t be easy for anyone to “put their head above the parapet” so to speak. It takes courage – a courage only too tragically demonstrated by the appalling death of U.K politician Jo Cox in recent days.(Assuming here that it occurred as reported – you’d have to be blind not to have come across the so-called “hoax” phenomenon as reported by some. And to be honest there are elements to this case that disturb me but I’ll keep those concerns to myself as i don’t enjoy spreading malicious gossip or rumor about on-line) Politicians are said to be Public Servants & a savant is someone who has an extraordinary ability (at least in one field) unfortunately in recent years it would appear that too many of these gifted people have been more interested in serving themselves & their vested interests than serving the greater good. Jo Cox, it appears, was not of that school. She was, if her maiden speech is anything to go by, one of the “good guys”.

 

Fear of death seems to be at the heart of so much human conflict. The cause of so much misery. If you look closely enough you will find that at root many of the problems in our world today come down to a fear of death. Or perhaps more accurately a fear of “dying”.  Likewise with religion. Death! That most alarming “rite of passage” that we all know we must go through at some point. The instinct for survival is the most basic drive & instinct programmed in to all living biological forms. And yet we all know in our hearts that one day we all must die. Even if we could extend life by many centuries at some point we’d still all die. It’s the ultimate paradox & causes us much subconscious distress. It is my feeling that this is built into the system. However, it’s not really “death”. It may just be renewal.  We discard one biological space-suit (or virtual reality shell – which includes our environment, for another) The whole quest of Science has been to re-re-member this if you like.

Life!  –  the ultimate “multilayer mutli-player” game.   (Science / séance)

Perhaps this “life” is just one level of a very complex game.

Perhaps that is what the rise of “on-line gaming” & virtual reality head-sets is really trying to tell us.

It comes down to anthropic & entropic principles. Look at all the changes that we have seen in our own lives. If you are over 40 or certainly 50 you will probably understand. From the seemingly (looking back) simple world of the 1960’s we now find ourselves in the ever increasingly complex world of 2016. From facing “imminent destruction” by atomic bombs in the 60’s we now live in a world where we apparently face “imminent destruction” from … well, take your pick really … pandemics, failing antibiotics, bio-warfare, the rise of hybrid armies, cloning, Morgellons, Chemtrails, A.I. Quantum Computers … the list just goes on & on.

But could this all just be a trick of perception? Remember those youngsters I mentioned? Fresh faced & innocent & totally oblivious to all the “horrors” that are waiting to engulf them as their perceptions widen and they take in more “data”?

Leonard Susskind argues that data is in fact entropy whilst the hidden Sephirot on the Kabbalah is called Da’at.  An anagram of data

Be careful what you seek for. Perhaps ignorance really can be bliss.

Imagine for a moment if one were to achieve considerable life-extension. How many “threats” would one be surrounded by?  Too many to withstand for long? Perhaps then the human lifespan as paltry as it seems to us is in & of itself a blessing? Our mortality itself a chance for renewal? Heresy to our society. But if that is the case, then why so terrifying? Well, for one thing, to encourage us to “stay in the game” for as long as it takes. If it were that easy to quit perhaps we would give up too easily. Before we have learnt what we came here to learn. Dr Richard Alan Miller maintains that this is where we come to be “spiritually sick” – a kind of hospital if you will.  I think there might be something to that idea.

My old mum is now 96 years old. Bless her! When she was younger she would encourage me to give up smoking as she was worried it would “carry me off prematurely” now she warns me to not live as long as she herself has – ironic eh?  She’s never had a days illness in her life. Never once shown any gratitude for it. Thankfully nature has been kind & she’s still with us. I say thankfully from purely selfish reasons – I don’t want her to go.

My neighbor was in his late 80’s & after struggling bravely to remain independent for as long as he could he has just succumbed to a stroke. In one way it seems that there are no pots of gold at the end of the rainbow. Not this side of the veil anyway. We got a one-way ticket to ride & yet the “pot of gold” that we all seek has actually been there all along right in front of our eyes. (Our I’s) do you have your health? Can you go out for a walk today & enjoy the fresh air & the sunshine?  The bounty of this wonderful world

Then what the fuck are you moaning about?

Do you have a partner? Kids? Then why are you disgruntled? But that’s human nature! Always consumed by what it hasn’t got – rather than giving thanks for what we have been given!

So do I fear death?

Of course i do, absolutely – i really appreciate my life. The simple days are the best & most beautiful, as one gets older it’s the little things that make life so awesome. & who doesn’t fear the unknown? At least to some extent. And yet at the same time we have to come to accept that there is no “right time” to die. A good friend’s father was killed in The Hungerford Massacre. A tragic & terrifying way to die I am sure & yet when the autopsy came through it showed that he had had terminal cancer anyway which would have carried him off at any time regardless. At the end of the day when your number is up your number is up but that is precisely why I have faith.

We are actually completely powerless against such a force as death / costume change.It will get us regardless of where or how we try to hide so why try to hide at all?

No point in hiding. No point in trying to keep quiet but I think that I am here for a purpose, as are you & that purpose is yet to reach completion.

I am here to fulfill a promise I made not only to myself but to a much higher power

& in that power I trust …

 

Life is a beautiful gift – please don’t waste it.

Let’s not fight each other. The only real “enemy” is time itself. The ultimate destroyer & yet the supplier of all we have so how can even he be our enemy?  At the last hurdle even time itself is our friend. A most dear companion.  Old Father Time.

(TIME/EMIT)

This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.”

Terence McKenna

Time to rethink

Jam

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Jam Tomorrow

 

I could rant on about the trap of the Taurean Matrix & how the Toryean bullies of the Bullying Don Club are all leading the Cow-herds ever nearer to extinction through destruction of the World’s resources because of their unbridled greed but what would be the point in that?  Just a load of old BULL . Anyway, the Bull of Taurus also represents strength & determination. It has served us well enough for nigh on 6.500 years. As we now finally emerge out of the tripartite age of the neolithic (Taurus, Aries, Pisces)  like so much in this world of ours it could be said to be “tarot” on one level but it seems to me that there are many levels of truth/tarot & understanding (or lack of) in this world.

I could rant on about the conspiracy’s around chem-trails or I could accuse the so called “elites” of all manner of crimes but hey …. the truth is I don’t know any of that … only read what other people say (obviously I see the plane trails – everything seems to increasingly have a metaphorical meaning these days) To me it’s all the “death throws” of the Age of Taurus, as we begin to step out into a far larger Universe – the whole world shrinks & unites whilst it simultaneously unties & gets larger

I’ve been thinking about why I felt / feel such a need to “do something” or “say something” Perhaps I just crave an “audience”? (good luck with that!) So many torquing, so few listening.  Perhaps like all of us, I am just trying to “save” myself.

I thought I wanted to try & help man kind as I thought of myself as a kind man

Perhaps in truth I just want to help myself & that’s pretty selfish, but remember, it maybe a flat Earth or it may be a sphere but regardless, we are the whirled.  you cannot separate one from the other

The truth is I got to this age & I’ve had a pretty good life, i feel blessed I’ve spent most of my life keeping my head down & saying nothing. enjoying the fruits of this life. I’ve never craved monetary riches (they seem so transient) but then I saw something happening & felt that perhaps I had a “duty” to speak out. I saw many in distress. How could I not speak ?

Make my voice heard?  I felt within myself that perhaps I had “something to offer” (we all do – have something to offer i mean) I felt that if life was becoming more precarious (simply by nature of my having got to a certain age, if nothing else) then I had an obligation to try & use the brain that God gave me to try & contribute some good whilst I “still can” … from each according to their abilities & all that …after surviving what could have been a fatal illness I also had those presumably not uncommon feelings that I had been “spared”a little while longer, for a reason.

So here i am. i published. No-one seemed to connect.

That’s okay.

i am used to it. i never knowingly try to force my views onto anyone else. Even when I thought that people were mistaken I was usually unsure of my own position, thinking that I couldn’t be sure that I was in possession of all the relevant facts on any given matter.

One can only act from the position that one finds oneself in.

No influence is no influence – anyway, I’ve never been good with responsibility 🙂

Over the last few years I have made some fascinating & interesting discoveries that I want to share with people. Unfortunately most in my circles weren’t particularly interested & everyone on line seemed too busy talking. I discovered that the Planetary Axial Tilts have strange number correlations that seem to defy random chance. I published on line in a couple of places. No one seemed to care or even notice. I also stumbled upon hints of a “hidden dimension” nestling within our very own matrix of words as I have tried to illustrate.

And I found that Human DNA & genes can seemingly be referenced quickly & simply by using the 3 6 9 code & multiples of the Great Year – (if I get a chance I will publish more details) I also discovered (building on the work of Lucien Khan & others) some fascinating patterns (growth patterns?) hidden within our number sequences such as the Fibonacci sequence (which is well known) but also the Lucas numbers & in fact any sequence that adds the previous two numbers to deduce the third. They give us some intriguing results which seem to encapsulate all the sacred numbers as well as the Speed of Light & even perhaps the date of the last pole shift … what does it all mean ?

Well, I know what it appears to show me but I won’t jump the gun.

It’s literally been like a magic carpet ride – wonderful at times, scary at others.

I hope to be posting up about these “observations” in more detail soon.

But …. if my time were up tomorrow what would I want to say today?

What would I want to leave the world ?

I’d want to say a BIG    “Thank you!”

I’d want to say thank-you to my constant companion & best friend, for being such a wonderful human being & putting up with me for  25 years plus .

I’d want to say thank-you to my mum & late dad (actually I was adopted) for doing their best to bring me up as a decent human being.  I’d want to say “thank-you” to all my friends & neighbors & my pets for enriching my life in a million little ways …

I’d want to say thank-you” to all the great actors & musicians & singers who have given so freely of themselves in a way that I never could.

I’d want to say thank you to Stephen Hawking & to Michio Kaku & to Leonard Susskind & to a million other characters & bloggers & writers who have enriched my life & made me think & yet who never even knew of my existence.

I’d want to say thank-you to all the Nurses, Doctors, cleaners plumbers & all those who work “behind the scenes” & who have given me a helping hand when I needed it.

I’d want to say thank-you to all the film makers & activists – all the rebels & outcasts …. trying to do the right thing as they see it.

I’d want to say thank you to the many different You Tubers, most of whom have no idea that i watched their material or that i even exist, but who all in their own way have helped me to expand my mind & my thinking.

I’d even want to say thank-you to our own Royal Family for making Britain a great country to live in for the last 50 years & yes even to our Politicians & Police for doing a job that I certainly wouldn’t like to do.

I’d want to say “thank-you” to the grass, to the flowers, to the moon to the Stars ….

to it all ….

Well you get the idea … this life is & has been a wonderful & great adventure

we all have so much in common & yet we spend so much of our time being furious about the tiny bits we disagree about … oh man!  … how tragically comical is that?

maybe we’ll funnily finally get it soon enough ….. change is coming …

I recently felt the urge to watch again for the first time in years the film My Dinner With Andre  It’s a great film & I remember seeing it when I was young. It came out when I was 19. I think it’s actually a great metaphor from our own internal conversation. Andre kind of represents the “right hemisphere” or if you prefer the Theta Delta aspects of our mind whereas Wallace is more like the “left hemisphere” or the alpha beta part of our mind.

i like both Andre & Wallace. i think just lately i particularly like Wallace .

anyway i hope that should anyone stumble across this it makes some kind of sense 🙂

Jam

The Taurean Stairway To Heaven

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Just a quick update.

When I started this blog I made reference to Nennius who was supposedly a Welsh monk of the 9th Century who “made a pile” of all that he could find ….

In my attempt to follow Nennius’ example I would be remiss if I did not include the following “information”.

I made a promise to myself that I would try & chronicle the extraordinary events of our times in my own, far from perfect way, as best as I can.

For whom?

Well, I am not really sure. I leave that for others “higher up the metaphysical chain of command” to decide. If someone needs to see it I have no doubt that they will.

If not … fair enough.

Quantum actions & all that …. a butterfly flaps it’s wings …

So anyway, if you take the time to view this blog you will note something of more than a passing interest of mine in the Astrological sign of Taurus & it’s connection to our culture’s Neolithic roots.

Observations of connections between the words Taurus & Torus, & Torah & Tara (the ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland/Eye Land/ High land) & the Latin name for Planet Earth “Terra”, the Abraham-ic Terah & even the modern”war on Terror“.

Taurus was the last Fixed Sign of The Zodiac that “we” passed through between 6480 years & 4320 years ago, & the next fixed sign that we are currently approaching is the fixed sign of Aquarius. The so-called “Age of Aquarius”. This is important because it illustrates the essential tripartite nature of the over arching O.S – the O.S. Iris

(The All-Seeing Eye, the El seeing I – The Eye Seeing All etc.)

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So, anyway, on the 12th April this news broke (note the date)

Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven may be partly stolen, judge says

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/12/stairway-to-heavens-opening-chords-may-have-been-stolen-judge-says

Led Zeppelin, are being sued for “borrowing” the opening chords to their famous song “Stairway To Heaven”

If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now,
It’s just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won’t go, in case you don’t know,
The piper’s calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?

If I was to go all sym bull ic on you I might be tempted to suggest that The “Airship full of inflammable hot air” that crashed & burned, the “Led Zeppelin” is now being called to account …

but by whom ?   The article tells us :

The lawsuit was brought by Michael Skidmore, a trustee for the late Randy Wolfe, also known as Randy California, who was Spirit’s guitarist and the composer of Taurus.

If I was a conspiracy theorist I might be tempted to say it almost looks as if we took a leap over the Bull only to land deep in the Bull pooh again

Anyway whatever the tarot of the matter I love watching this :

 

It makes me realize (see with my real eyes) that we really are all on “this crazy ride” together & to quote SJ Tucker for a moment from her wonderful &  wise song “Cheshire Cat” :

“In wonderland no-one knows the way”

but

“you can’t go home in the middle of the magic carpet ride”

 

Here’s the thing : However full of HOT AIR we might be … & however inevitable our “crash” never-the-less our collective LED ZEPPELIN created & creates something better & beyond The Spirit of Taurus the BULL  …. no life is wasted …. we all add more storey’s to the building of life … even if eventually the “tower of babel” get’s knocked down … it will rise again phoenix like from the ashes …

So here’s “Taurus” by “Spirit”

 

You be the judge ….  (or better still, save judgement for another day)

 

 

 

 

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I leave it to others, wiser than myself, to make sense of what it all means … 🙂

The Taurean Stairway To Heaven

The Never Ending Storeys

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The CIRCLE – The Cycle – The Sickle – The Psyche of EL (The Mind of Time)

? The Eternal Quest Ion  ?

A traveller passing through …

Perhaps when each of us (appears to) die the “World” dies with us for we are each “the Whirled” in our own right. When we are children we are sometimes told “the world doesn’t revolve around you you know” when in fact it most certainly does.

When we are born we all are expected to take on a role (roll) we all take our turn, all have a “spin of the die ” & sometimes we can feel as if things are “spinning out of control“

Just like we are each our own unique World perhaps we are also our own unique Universe (maybe the Universe is literally You In Verse & you inverse – the “Multi – verse” is all 7 Billion of us together making up & sharing some kind of agreed narrative – a shared experience.

We are all fractions & factions & even fictions of the Whole / the hole.

We are Time/emit – having a dream.

The joke is that we’ve all tried to understand our Universe through physics & maths & equations when really “In the beginning was “The Word” which is also the Wyrd (or destiny) but instead of grasping this, in the maze of Maya (Taurus) we literally languish in language (L anguish) distracted by “spelling” & forgetting that old Father Time is & has always been first & foremost a poet , a story teller, & through the storeys the building grow higher.

The tower ( or tour or tear in time or tor or Torah ) of our lives unfolds

a wonderful dream,  a most beautiful story …& at times, even a nightmare

or even all that & more ….

But we have not yet written the end …

Your story is my story & …

My-story is a mystery

one day our stories will be toiled,

then we shall all become one, we shall all become won

we will all join with His Story ….

& then the story shall never end …..

the great work shall go on … the living word

as long as someone or something “remains” to read our stories

                                                                            & re-mind us to re-member.

 

https://youtu.be/pF_MTFzm27A

 

The River of Life Babbles On ….

Notice the Psalm No :   Inverse of Fine Structure Constant or Alpha = 1/137

 

 

When all stories have been toiled

then all shall be known & then all shall be none   –  Science / seance

keep on talking …. keep on building those storeys

so that the Tower may grow ever higher ….

We live in the alpha beta  but the blues comes from the delta …

The Never Ending Storeys

SPACE(d) MATHS

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Travel from the Stone(d) Age – all the way to – the Space(d) Age

take a dip in the lunar sea

(without ever leaving your seat)

It’s not Rocket Science. it’s Rock -> E.T.

i – Sense

Estimated Age Of The Earth : 4.5 Billion years. (4+5 = 9)

Estimated Age of The Universe : 13.7 Billion years (1+3+7 = 11)

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Alpha or FSC = 1/137

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“Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind”

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page

Notice the 360 Terra Byte storage capacity & the length of “storage” time (13.8 billion years)

3, 6, 9, 18, 27, 54, 108, 216, 432, 864 …

The diameter of The Sun is approx 108 times the diameter of The Earth

Tilt of The Earth 23.4 degrees (2+3+4 = 9)

12 Houses of The Zodiac each = 2160 years (2+1+6+0 = 9)

12 x 2160 = 25,920 (2+5+9+2+0 = 18 (1+8) = 9)

25,920 Year cycle = The Great Year

1 degree of which = 72 years (7+2 = 9)

27 Books in The New Testament Bible (2+7 = 9)

12 x 72 = 864 (8+6+4 = 18 (1+8 = 9)

Sun

The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (4+3+2+4+5 = 18 (1+8) = 9)

The diameter is 864, 000 miles across (8+6+4 = 18 (1+8) = 9)

(or, if you prefer 864,900 miles = 9)

(or, if you prefer : 864,938 miles = 11)

Moon

Orbital period: 27 days (2+7 = 9)

Gravity : 1.622 m/s² (1+6+2+2 = 11)

Diameter = 2160 miles (2+1+6+0 = 9)

The Moon is approximately 27% the size of The Earth (2+7 = 9)

Earth

The distance from Earth to the Sun is called an astronomical unit, or AU,

which is used to measure distances throughout the solar system.

The AU has been defined as 92,955,807 miles (usually rounded up to 93 million miles)

(9+2+9+5+5+8+0+7 = 45 (4+5 = 9)

43,200 = 12 hours in seconds.

86,400 = 24 hours in seconds

If you square 432 like this (432×432) it totals (to within 1 degree) the speed of light (186,282) which adds up to 9

The Speed of Light (432 squared).

432 sq = 186624 (S.o.L = 186282)

1+8+6+6+2+4 = 27 (2+7) = 9

1+8+6+2+8+2 = 27 (2+7) = 9

186,624 – 186,282 = 342 (3+4+2 = 9)

(see Planetary Axial Tilts)

SPACE(d) MATHS

A Horror Bull Dream

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I once had a horror bull dream 

on far off horizons 

I saw Horus risin' .... 

but i knew that this was all just  

a horror bull dream

 

Kevin – from one human being to another. For what it’s worth. Should you ever see this.

I feel your pain. We all share your tragedy.  The darkest hour is always before the dawn.

Stay strong but also … let it go ….

 

 

 

 

We’ve always lived “on the Eve of Destruction”  when I was born the Cuban Missile Crisis was unraveling.  People doubted whether they’d live to see mourning.

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T’ was ever thus ….  but this whirl is full of illusion ….

and it ain’t over ’till the fat lady sings & well, she ain’t even torquing…

 

 

A Horror Bull Dream

Who was St Christopher?

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I recently had a sudden urge to buy a St Christopher medallion.

When I was a child many years ago I had been given one upon a visit to Canterbury Cathedral.

The story goes

St. Christopher carried Christ over the raging river (of life)

so, who was St Christ-Over?

perhaps none other than one St. Menas

Saint Mina (also Minas, Menas, Mena, Mennas) (285 – c. 309), the Martyr and Wonder-worker, is one of the most well-known Egyptian saints in the East and the West, due to the many miracles that are attributed to his intercession and prayers. Mina was an Egyptian soldier in the Roman army, martyred because he refused to recant his Christian faith

Where else have we encountered Minos ?

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Gustave Doré‘s illustration of King Minos for Dante Alighieri‘s Inferno.

In Greek mythology Minos (/ˈmaɪnɒs/ or /ˈmaɪnəs/; Greek: Μίνως, Minōs) was the first King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus‘ creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur. After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in the underworld. The Minoan civilization of Crete has been named after him by the archaeologist Arthur Evans.

By his wife, Pasiphaë (or some say Crete), he fathered Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Catreus, Acacallis and Xenodice. By a nymph, Pareia, he had four sons, Eurymedon, Nephalion, Chryses and Philolaus, who were killed by Heracles in revenge for the murder of the latter’s two companions; and by Dexithea, one of the Telchines, he had a son called Euxanthius. By Androgeneia of Phaestus he had Asterion, who commanded the Cretan contingent in the war between Dionysus and the Indians. Also given as his children are Euryale, possibly the mother of Orion with Poseidon, and Pholegander, eponym of the island Pholegandros.

Co-incidence? Who knows?

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