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Number 26 – The Number of Script
Mar 26th
By Wolfgang Held, extracted from “The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one“, published 1/03/12 by Floris Books.
Wolfgang Held was born in Germany in 1964. He worked for many years in the Mathematics and Astronomy section of the Goetheanum, where he now runs the publicity department. His latest book, ‘The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one’ explores the fascinating characteristics of numbers in relation to our lives. Throughout March we will be featuring selected edited extracts from this book. Today, the 26th of March, we are looking at the number 26.
Pierre De Fermat
The great mathematician Pierre de Fermat demonstrated that something applies to 26 which is true of no other number. Only 26 has neighbouring numbers that are a square (25 = 52) and a cube number (27 = 33). There are square numbers and cube numbers that adjoin each other such as eight and nine, with the satisfying reflection of 23 and 32. Square numbers and cube numbers can also meet in one and the same number. The smallest number this applies to is 64, which is simultaneously 43 and 82. The privilege of being both a square and a cube number belongs to all those where the number of More >
Number 21 – The Number Between Eternity and Time
Mar 21st
By Wolfgang Held, extracted from “The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one“, published 1/03/12 by Floris Books.
Wolfgang Held was born in Germany in 1964. He worked for many years in the Mathematics and Astronomy section of the Goetheanum, where he now runs the publicity department. His latest book, ‘The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one’ explores the fascinating characteristics of numbers in relation to our lives. Throughout March we will be featuring selected edited extracts from this book. Today, the 21st of March, we are looking at the number 21.
The cannons thundered 21 times when the Crown Princess of Sweden said ‘I do’ in June 2010, and 21 times when President Obama was sworn in. And there is a 21-gun salute when the Queen Elizabeth visits a foreign state. Why 21?
When sailing ships were equipped with cannon in the fourteenth century, they were not allowed to enter harbour primed for battle. They therefore fired off the powder from their cannon without cannon balls, and this sign of peace led to the gun salute. Seven such shots were fired since these early battle ships each had seven cannon. Possibly because cannon on land could fire more quickly, the seven salute shots More >
Number 14 – The Bridge Between Heaven and Earth
Mar 14th
By Wolfgang Held, extracted from “The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one“, published 1/03/12 by Floris Books.
Wolfgang Held was born in Germany in 1964. He worked for many years in the Mathematics and Astronomy section of the Goetheanum, where he now runs the publicity department. His latest book, ‘The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one’ explores the fascinating characteristics of numbers in relation to our lives. Throughout March we will be featuring selected edited extracts from this book. Today, the 14th of March, we are looking at the number 14.
The number 14 is twice seven, the second step in the seventimes table, and therefore, like that number, connected with time and development.
Salt
This is particularly apparent in human biography. School in Germany, Scandinavia and in Waldorf Schools begins during a child’s seventh year – that is, between the age of six and seven, when physical development is far enough advanced to allow intellectual development to begin, with writing, reading and arithmetic. At age 14 – or somewhat earlier today given good nutrition – soul maturity succeeds physical maturation, awakening in love for the opposite sex but also in enthusiasm for ideas and ideals. From being an ‘offspring’, one becomes a member More >
Number 6 – The Number of Perfection
Mar 6th
By Wolfgang Held, extracted from “The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one“, published 1/03/12 by Floris Books.
Wolfgang Held was born in Germany in 1964. He worked for many years in the Mathematics and Astronomy section of the Goetheanum, where he now runs the publicity department. His latest book, ‘The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one’ explores the fascinating characteristics of numbers in relation to our lives. Throughout March we will be featuring selected edited extracts from this book. Today, the 6th of March, we are looking at the number 6.
If you catch single [snow]flakes on a cold sheet of glass and, keeping conditions cold, observe them under a simple microscope, something of the distinctive nature of six will be revealed. Every crystal, sometimes as compact as honeycomb, sometimes finely branching, will show a six-pointed star in millions of variations. More perfectly than in the growth of mineral crystals, these fleeting water crystals reveal and embody hexagonal symmetry; and one can observe this wealth of snow crystal forms for hours without ever tiring of them.
The idea that, when snow falls in winter, something falls from the cosmos to the earth, is more than a merely poetic image. The number six, as More >
Tasting the Universe: A Spiritual and Scientific Exploration of Synesthesia by Maureen Seaberg
Jul 30th
Tasting the Universe: People Who See Colors in Words and Rainbows in Symphonies
by Maureen Seaberg
Like the Marine who becomes “Avatar” in James Cameron’s astonishing film, there are people among us whose perceptions may place them in a rare category of consciousness right here on Earth. They are synesthetes. And like the Na’avi of Pandora, they are my tribe.
(c) Petr Vaclavek, Shutterstock
Synesthesia is defined as “a neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.” Despite a prodigious memory like most synesthetes (the additional sensations act as a mnemonic) I’ve never been able to memorize that definition, which falls so short of the wonder of seeing phosphorescent color around my letters, numbers, days of the week, months and some music. To me, it is only a tiny part of what goes on in a synesthete’s mind. And to me, synesthesia is not just some neurological glitch (crossed neurons or lack of inhibition between them are the two dominant theories) but a form of consciousness and even an interface to the quantum.
Scientists are discovering now that beyond seeing colored music, or tasting words, or seeing auras or having More >
Countdown to Coherence
Oct 26th
A Spiritual Journey Toward a Scientific Theory of Everything
Published in The Watkins Review, Issue 25, Autumn 2010/Winter 2011
Back in 1998, with a doctor present, I went through an intense near death experience which triggered huge amounts of ‘paranormal’ activity around me. Afterwards, as an inquisitive health journalist with the Sunday Times, I went on to write two science/spiritual books – Divine Intervention and The Evidence for the Sixth Sense.
By the spring of 2008, I intuitively knew that I needed to write another book. I had known this for some time, yet the inspiration simply wasn’t forthcoming. Then, out of the blue, a mysterious encounter with a young woman propelled me on another fascinating journey – which has become this book.
Films such as Avatar have hugely increased interest in spiritual subjects. Yet, many people, even some who are on a spiritual journey, remain unaware that ongoing scientific research and theories are now in place that help explain a huge myriad of phenomenon – paranormal and otherwise. For instance, there is now verified science that demonstrates the difference between a fully enlightened man or woman – and the rest of us. Scientists have also found the G spot of enlightenment in the More >
