1 = strong will; unity, purity
2 = duality, harmony (Yin/Yang)
3 = magic, intuition (Holy Trinity)
4 = stability, grounded (nature)
5 = travel, adventure, journey
6 = Sincerity, love, truth
7 = magic, mystery, enlightenment

I have always believed that meaning is defined within the context of a person experience. So although 7 might mean good luck to you, it may mean hate and lust to me because of my experiences with that number.

Each culture attributes meaning to numbers: Chinese numerology

Biblical numerology

Vedic numerology

More examples of spiritual meaning of numbers
THE NUMBER 7 IS EVERYWHERE

NUMEROLOGY:
Life path number - signifies intellect and an introspective, analytical mind. Considered to be a spiritual, sacred, and this is evidenced by the fact that there are seven days in the week, and ancient texts propose that the earth was formed in seven phases.
BIBLE:
In the Hebrew, seven ([b’v, - Sheh’-bah) is from a root word meaning to be complete or full.
It is known as the number of God’s seal.
Example: in Revelation 1:16 — “and He had in His right hand seven stars, ” alluding to the seven churches of Asia.
It is used throughout the Old and New Testament repeatedly with deliberate pattern.

The metaphysical use and meaning of numbers are completely at the mercy of interpretation. As such, it is all over the place with little practical application. That is a shame (as with all metaphysics) its talks around some of the most critical aspects of reality but fails to nail anything down. It is easy to see the influence of culture on the meaning attributed to numbers. The tragedy is that the imposed meaning ends up telling us more about the people and/or culture than the subject they are talking about. Here is a new system that relies less on prescribed meaning, focuses exclusively on the actual perspective of the person which in turn give meaning an absolute path.

Here is an Entirely Different Take on the Spiritual Meaning of Numbers.

We are the numbers. Our point of view, our perspective is the equation, the function through which constant values are passed to produce various results, or meaning.

Essentially, meaning is relative to perspective.

Out of western psychology, eastern spirituality and postmodern philosophy there is a new way to use numbers as a way to navigate awareness itself, the cradle of meaning. How much more enhanced is our meaning if we know its source? Its called Integral Mathematics of Primordial Perspectives. To be fair, it less about numbers than it is about perspectives, so numerology is forever safe.

Integral Mathematics of Primordial Perspectives

Oversimplified description:
Created by philosophical genius Ken Wilber, Integral Mathematics of Primordial Perspectives, we’ll call it integral mathematics, is a comprehensive method of referring to natural points of view that we all have. For example, my first-person perspective would be written as 1p (1-p). 1p = my, 1-p = first-person perspective, but there are other perspectives that I can have from my point of view: 2p = your perspective, 3p = his/her/it perspective.

So, from my perspective, I see that you have a first-person perspective:
1p(1p) x 2p(1-p)

I can also be aware of you from a third person perspective:
1p(1-p) x 1p(3-p) x 2p(1-p)

This means I’m observing your from an objective perspective, this could mean I’m using some theory or some measure or book like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) to evaluated you.

Pathology: Perspective Mathematics

Consider multiple personality disorder (aka Dissociative Identity Disorder). This would be me objectively looking at your multiple personalities:

1p(1p) x 1p(3-p) x (2p(1-p)/n)

n = number of personalities
This may be written wrong, but what I’m trying to express is my first-person perspective (1p(1-p)) view of an objective perspective (1p(3-p)) of your first person view that is (2p(1-p) that is divided by “n” personalities. The slash maybe wrong because Wilber uses “/p” to define something else. By interacting with each of the fractional parts of your first perpective, I can better understand why it has been partitioned. What are you protecting yourself against? What is the common ground of the personailities? One can also explore each personalities perspectives on itself and relationships to the world around it. The end equation could end up looking like the most beautiful monster you have ever seen.

Lucid Dream & Altered States: Integral Math

I had a lucid dream in which I was trying to fly years ago. Once I was aware of my being in a dream, I became peripherally aware of my body. I was able to hold the heavy feeling of my body at bay while I continued my lucid dream. In integral mathematics I would describe it like this:

1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p(3/p)

I (1p(1p)) had a first person perspective (1p(1-p)) of my body (3p(3/p)). The equation strip away my personal meaning and allows you to put it in your own contexts although you can still understand the mechanics of the perspective. I’m seeing the body as a separate object the same way I might see a tree or my coffee cup, but perhaps (since the body actually holds the perspective) it should be written like this:

1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p{(1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p {…}}

Which is to say, I had a first person perspective of my body which contains a my first person perspective of my body which has a first person perspective of my body…. And so on. So it becomes like two mirrors facing one another. The only way to maintain the stability of my lucid dream perspective was to minimize my awareness of my body.

Out of Body Experience

In his book, Astral Dynamics, Robert Bruce talks about similar experiences. But he takes it a step further because his theory is that the body itself continues to dream and have its very own perspectives while the subtle body has its very own experiences. He attributes the relatively low number of the phenomenon to loss of memory caused by the body “overwriting” the “shadow memory” of the subtle body.

So it would look like this…

Sleep & Dreaming mind/body seeing objects in the dream: 1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p(3-p)

Subtle body experience/altered state of consciousness seeing the sleeping body: 1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p{1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p(…)}
Traditional science tends to attribute OBE to some sort of brain anomoly hallucination (despite actual evidence of nonlocal consciousness), but for the purposes of this post we are only concerned with perspective. And the perspective is my first person perspective of the body with a first person perspective of the body… Whatever meaning that Robert Bruce, you or I attribute to this phenomenon should be put in its “own box” so to speak. And with Intergral math, that is easy to do.

8-Coil Shakti - Part 5: Wearing My Body

15 Jan. 08 - 11-12am

Location of coils: Frontal Lobe
Duration: 60
Signal type: Altered States (For Beginners)
(volume 81% output)

Overview:
This is my 5th Shakti session and this time the feeling it produced was unmistakable. I felt like I was “wearing my body”. The intensity of the feeling came in waves.

Wearing My Body
I followed Todd Murphy’s advice, I updated the Shakti software to v.5g.8 and used the longer session (60min for beginners). About 5 minutes into it the session I felt some sort of subtle sinus type pressure in the center of my frontal lobe. I immediately wrote this off. But as I sit here typing, I wonder about that because I have no cold, no sniffles and no frontal feeling until I put the Shakti on. That pressure was persistent until about 45 minutes into the Altered States session when a different experience slapped me in the awareness. I laid on my bed relaxed feeling like I was wearing my body.

Now I know this will sound like an insane contradiction but I felt like a disembodied spirit wearing a body. Its was as if at any moment I could pop out and go else where. It was a very strange feeling. I’ve felt it before a few times (once after reading Osho’s book called Awareness, The Key to Living in Balance… good book). And a couple times in meditation using Robert Bruce’s “rope technique“. I have yet to have a successful OBE after having that experience with the rope technique but I definitely feel something.

So this session was great and I’m anxious to do it again.

OBE… what good it it?

Since I was a kid reading Robert Monroe’s Journey’s out of the body, I have been obsessed with out of the body experiences. Mainly because I was relieved and facinated that someone had had the same experience I’d had. Sadly, I don’t have them anymore (or at least none that I can recall).

When I was having them, I found it quite terrifying. I’d come to awareness and feel like I was floating on the ceiling or partially through the bed and floor and suddenly wake with a start only to realize… I was paralyzed. I couldn’t move my body. Like a chinese finger trap, the more I struggled the harder it was to move. Only when I relaxed was I finally able to slowly wake up my slumbering physical corpse. And when I opened my eyes I didn’t ever want to close them again for fear of being “locked in”.

I was able to conquere my fear of those other worldly experiences and eventually stop them almost completly by time the time I got to Junior High School, but by that time I’d read several books that talked about what I came to know as “sleep paralysis”, astral projection (OBE) and what you could do with these abilities. I was facinated and wanted to be able to do them again, but was never able to recreated the frequency I had when I was in elementary.

These days (’08 in my 30’s) I’m just as obsessed but even more shut out from those experiences. I have strange unexplainable experiences maybe twice per year if that.

Today as I read, Robert Bruce’s Astral Dynamics, I find my self asking what practical good is Out of the Body Experience, anyway? Don’t get me wrong. This is not me playing Aesop’s Fox and blowing the whole thing off because I am an “OBE failure”. Further, I don’t doubt that it is a real experience. The theories behind this global, cross-culture phenomenon may not agreed upon, but I personally know its real because I’ve experienced it. What IS the experience and WHY is another matter altogether.

A bigger question (for me) is, what good is it? If you can do it at will and can teach others, so what? Sure it feels good, its amazing, its exciting (and I definitely want to do it), but how can we use it to make the world a better place. I suppose you could argue that knowing that some part of the self may indeed survive death is pretty signifigant. I guess that accounts for something (I’ll mention with a shrug of my shoulders). Perhaps if everyone knew that physical reality was a mere stepping stone to another place they would behave better.

A warm fuzzy feeling is all well and good however I would submit this to you: OBE is not as important as the ability to shift to different states of consciousness. OBE seems to be only one of many grand symptoms reflecting what the human mind is capable of achieving in altered states of consciousness. Consider some of the inventions, music and discoveries achieved from altered states of consciousness:

Scientist Otto Loewi dreamed the experiment that enabled him to prove that nerve impulses are chemically transmitted, a discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.
Beethoven composed a canon in his sleep, and transcribed it after waking.
Tartini dreamed a famous violin sonata.
Robert Louis Stevenson received his stories in a twilight state of “reverie” in which benign spirits he called “brownies” helped him to compose.
William Butler Yeats wrote his celebrated one-act play Cathleen ni Houlihan from a dream, and much of his poetry flowed directly from dreams and visions.
Elias Howe, the inventor of the modern sewing machine, dreamed the solution to the technical problem that had stumped him.

— Robert Moss, Way of the Dreamer, “Two Minute History”

Others altered state creations include some of Paul McCartney’s songs, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Madame C.J. Walker (first American Woman Millionaire… who also happen to be African American) and here are many other examples.

I would take this idea a step further and suggest that our best professional athletes also experience altered states of consciousness when they are “in the zone”. Just thing of the possessed demon that wore #27 in the Chicago Bulls. Micheal Jordan’s enlightenment was a tongue out slam dunk in a 27 point game. Consider Lance Armstrong state of mind while he won his SIXTH tour de France after kicking cancers NATURAL BLACK ASS. Is it a stretch to believe that the greatest among us are capable of reaching the far reaches of human mind by accessing shamanistic states of bliss with amazing feats of focus.

I would also mention some of histories great porn stars, but I guess that would make everything I just a big joke to some. But consider it.. your best sexual performance probably included your most amazing state of mental, emotional physical focus… you were in the zone and the pay off is something you’d repeat every day if you could.

8-Coil Shakti - Part 3: Brain Reboot?

7 Jan. 08 - 12-1am (? - fell asleep)

Location of coils: Temporal Lobe
Duration: (?)
Signal type: Hippocampus signals 40Hz Alternating Modulated (fast alteration)
(volume increased to 86% output)

Overview:
This was my second session with the Shakti 8-coil device. Once AGAIN, I fell asleep. But unlike the last time I woke up feeling… above average mental clarity. I don’t recall any odd dreams but I felt very well rested almost like my brain had been rebooted.

Brain Reboot
If you’ve ever dealt with a Windows operating system (particularly PRE-XP), you’ll know that every now and then the system needs to be rebooted. That is completely shutting off the computer and turning it back on. If those legacy Windows system are not shut off every now and then you are in for a smorgusborg of delicious errors, hang time and lossed data for no damn “blue screen of death” reason. Well, that is was I felt like happen to me. I felt like my brain had been loaded with a bloated ineffecient Microsoft product that had been running without a reboot for about two months too long. I felt (perhaps unreasonably so) like my brain could calculate anything. Mentally, on that day was like the skinny guy that works out for two weeks into a New Years resolution, gets a pump and starts to puff his chest out in front of the babes!

I believe the Shakti had something to do with it, but not totally conviced yet. So I will mark this session as “Do Over”.

Better than “the secret”

I personally like the The Secret. There are some serious haters out there of this movie and What the Bleep?! (another personal favorite). My view of these and other harsh criticisms about what has become a world wide movement is the same feeling I have about people taking Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity too seriously. At the end of the day their work (the producers of the the secret, bleep) is art and entertainment and if gives people a little slice of hope and happiness and joy outside of a sometimes ugly, cynical and sarcastic world than I don’t see the big hairy deal. There is something beautiful there. What has been really disconcerting to me about the Secret/Bleep criticism is that my hero Ken Wilber’s been firing shots at the movement. I respect everyones right to oppinion and I enjoy exploring each.

Anyway, I think that Deepak Chopra’s 7 Laws of Spiritual Success is better. I have been a fan of the book for a long time and now its a very well produced movie. But don’t take my word for it… watch it.

We only Detect 4% of the Universe

Why America Must Stay in Iraq

First off let me tell you I have never voted for ANY Bush past or present and I’m proud of that. Secondly, I did NOT agree with going to Iraq to search for fuckin’ WMDs or for OIL (operation Iraqi Liberation) or any other reason, particularly when we had allegedly been attacked by TERRORISTs not by Iraq, Iran, North Korea or any other member of the cartoonishly infamous “axis of evil”.

I do believe that there are terrorist who want to destroy America, but prior to America’s preemtive strike on Iraq they didn’t have the numbers, motives, power or news coverage that they do now. The war in Iraq has possibly made internation terrorism have a united cause.

I actually agree with 94′ Dick Cheney’s views on why it is a bad idea to take Iraq:

So why, then do I think we should stay? I see it as our responsibility to help the Iraqi people out of this chaos that was created by uprooting the structure they had in place. I am not an apologist for Saddam Hussein. I believe he was an evil man who violated the UN resolutions (a violation punishable by war, I might add). And though I think it was a VERY bad idea to unleash this “quagmire” that is now up to nearly half a trillion dollars (at a time when America itself faces a baby boomer social security disaster) we have an obligation to follow through. If we bail on the Iraqi people it will be worse than mere cowardice, it will dishonorable, heartless and above all, it will be betrayal. The same kind of betrayal that the U.S. exhibited in the Gulf War when we abandoned the Kurds and the resistance that rose up when we and many other nations stomped Saddam and got him out of Kuwait.

While I think we should stay in Iraq, I don’t buy into the AM radio, RUSH-Ditto-headed, “We have to win for OUR freedom” BULLSHIT! Its the height of arrogance to pin the successes of a stable Iraq in our hands for our own purpose when all the heavy lifting MUST be done by the Iraqi people. Yes, we will be will benefit by their stability but it is their country. We can help them attain stability, but ulimately success is in the hands of the Iraqis.

What annoys me about the Democrats and main stream liberals rhetoric is that they claim to want prosperity, health and love for everyone, but they want to bail out on the Iraqi people. I mean, yes it was wrong to go! Yes, the Bush administration sucks, but the fact is that we are there NOW and those people are suffering because of our actions.

Leaving Iraq now would be like a hit and run. We could call it “Sucker Punch” Diplomacy. It is sad that only the war mongers that flirt with a nuclear world war III (Guiliani) are the only ones who want to stay in Iraq and even they want to stay because, “We have to win for OUR freedom.”

I believe it is our moral and spiritual duty to stay in Iraq. Not for some BS religious reasons or devious political and strategic reason, but because there are people there (woman and children) who just want to live their lives.

Dream: A beautiful Woman

She was mahogany skinned, with long raven black hair. Was she spanish? East/West Indian? Whatever she was looked gorgeous. I was surprised that she was attracted to me. I found out through her friend.

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