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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2022 15:06:39 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 26, 2022 15:42:48 GMT
In its symbolism chess is the most significant of all games. It has been called “the royal game”–the pastime of kings. Like the Tarot cards, the chessmen represent the elements of life and philosophy. The game was played in India and China long before its introduction into Europe. East Indian princes were to sit on the balconies of their palaces and play chess with living men standing upon a checkerboard pavement of black and white marble in the courtyard below. It is popularly believed that the Egyptian Pharaohs played chess, but an examination of their sculpture and illuminations has led to the conclusion that the Egyptian game was a form of draughts. In China, chessmen are often carved to represent warring dynasties, as the Manchu and the Ming. The chessboard consists of 64 squares alternately black and white and symbolizes the floor of the House of the Mysteries. Upon this field of existence or thought move a number of strangely carved figures, each according to fixed law. The white king is Ormuzd; the black king, Ahriman; and upon the plains of Cosmos the great war between Light and Darkness is fought through all the ages. Of the philosophical constitution of man, the kings represent the spirit; the queens the mind; the bishops the emotions; the knights the vitality; the castles, or rooks, the physical body. The pieces upon the kings’ side are positive; those upon the queens’ side, negative. The pawns are the sensory impulses and perceptive faculties–the eight parts of the soul. The white king and his suite symbolize the Self and its vehicles; the black king and his retinue, the not-self–the false Ego and its legion. The game of chess thus sets forth the eternal struggle of each part of man’s compound nature against the shadow of itself. The nature of each of the chessmen is revealed by the way in which it moves; geometry is the key to their interpretation. For example: The castle (the body) moves on the square; the bishop (the emotions) moves on the slant; the king, being the spirit, cannot be captured, but loses the battle when so surrounded that it cannot escape. ~ Manly P. Hall
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Post by Admin on Jan 27, 2022 20:42:28 GMT
Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution A surprising new solution to Leonhard Euler’s famous “36 officers puzzle” offers a novel way of encoding quantum information. www.quantamagazine.org/eulers-243-year-old-impossible-puzzle-gets-a-quantum-solution-20220110/In 1779, the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler posed a puzzle that has since become famous: Six army regiments each have six officers of six different ranks. Can the 36 officers be arranged in a 6-by-6 square so that no row or column repeats a rank or regiment? The puzzle is easily solved when there are five ranks and five regiments, or seven ranks and seven regiments. But after searching in vain for a solution for the case of 36 officers, Euler concluded that “such an arrangement is impossible, though we can’t give a rigorous demonstration of this.” More than a century later, the French mathematician Gaston Tarry proved that, indeed, there was no way to arrange Euler’s 36 officers in a 6-by-6 square without repetition. In 1960, mathematicians used computers to prove that solutions exist for any number of regiments and ranks greater than two, except, curiously, six. Similar puzzles have entranced people for more than 2,000 years. Cultures around the world have made “magic squares,” arrays of numbers that add to the same sum along each row and column, and “Latin squares” filled with symbols that each appear once per row and column. These squares have been used in art and urban planning, and just for fun. One popular Latin square — Sudoku — has subsquares that also lack repeating symbols. Euler’s 36 officers puzzle asks for an “orthogonal Latin square,” in which two sets of properties, such as ranks and regiments, both satisfy the rules of the Latin square simultaneously.
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2022 13:16:07 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2022 18:52:03 GMT
Original Paper On Testing the Simulation Theory Tom Campbell 1 , Houman Owhadi 2,*, Joe Sauvageau 3 , and David Watkinson 4 1 PO Box 4103, Huntsville, AL 35815, USA 2 California Institute of Technology, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, MC 9-94 Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 3 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA 4 Main Street Multimedia, Inc. 3005 Main St. #406, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: owhadi@caltech.edu Received: 9 March 2017 / Accepted: 6 June 2017 / Published: 20 June 2017 Abstract: Can the theory that reality is a simulation be tested? We investigate this question based on the assumption that if the system performing the simulation is finite (i.e. has limited resources), then to achieve low computational complexity, such a system would, as in a video game, render content (reality) only at the moment that information becomes available for observation by a player and not at the moment of detection by a machine (that would be part of the simulation and whose detection would also be part of the internal computation performed by the Virtual Reality server before rendering content to the player). Guided by this principle we describe conceptual wave/particle duality experiments aimed at testing the simulation theory. Keywords: Simulation theory; wave-particle duality; quantum eraser; double slit; Von Neumann-Wigner interpretation; virtual reality drive.google.com/file/d/1qXO2997-g9YiSP6dEY7kSkXsghbZQMxe/view
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Post by Admin on Feb 13, 2022 12:04:39 GMT
Changing how we play the Game of Life on planet Earth anneloessmitsman.medium.com/changing-how-we-play-the-game-of-life-on-planet-earth-928dbde6af1eRose is feeling furious. “What’s the return on investment for all the trees who have to sacrifice their lives in the name of ‘progress’ every day? Or the animals who no longer have a place to live because every acre of land is covered with concrete and high-rise buildings? I don’t want you to control what I can do with my ideas. This compass is for all of humanity!” “You’re out of line, young woman,” the mustache man grumbles. A few other heads nod in agreement. But Rose’s inner dragon is up in full force. She looks each of them in the eye. “Did any of you even read my proposal?” No one responds. Rose continues, “Do you realize what’s at stake here? Do you? We are ‘playing’ for the very survival of the human species in the game of life. If we lose this game, we lose our planet. We lose the chance to continue to exist! We’ve wasted so much time being too arrogant to admit that we’ve been destroying our planet and each other’s future. There’s no time for hesitation. We must take appropriate action. Now!” “You’ve pitched your ideas to the wrong company,” the CEO answers sternly. “As I said, we are not a charity, and without financial capital, your nice little ideas won’t get far. If you don’t like our conditions, then we have finished here.” Rose feels overwhelmed by a deep sense of injustice. She’s overcome with a burning desire to expose the lies and manipulations of corporate greed and their abuse of power. She feels close to rage and is ready to spit fire. The intensity of these raw emotions takes her by surprise. “You are exactly what’s wrong with this world,” Rose says sharply. “It’s because of people like you and companies like yours that our world is in such a mess. Because of your corporate interests, I now have to fight for my future. You’re the reason I developed this game: to get people to opt-in to the game of life and opt-out of the game of greed and control. You know what? Never mind. I’m going to develop my game with blockchain technologies.” The board members look at her blankly. “I’ll bet you don’t even know what that means. Blockchain makes it possible to work transparently and in a decentralized way with open-source codes and smart contracts. In my project, I want multiple developers from around the world to be able to work together and be protected through a creative commons license. This ‘central control’ that you want is a thing of the past. These days everything is done through smart contracts,” (Smitsman and Houston, 2022, chapter 1). The scene above is from chapter 1 of Return of the Avatars: The Cosmic Architect Tools of Our Future Becoming, book 2 of the Future Humans Trilogy, which I’ve co-authored with Dr. Jean Houston. During this scene, Rose (the main character) is pitching her ideas of a Cosmic Compass game as a Future Humans Quest for addressing our world in crisis, to potential investors.
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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2022 20:38:01 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 13, 2022 14:38:59 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2022 16:41:46 GMT
“The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.” ― Carl Jung
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Post by Admin on Apr 29, 2022 10:21:17 GMT
Enochian chess en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian_chessEnochian chess is a four-player chess variant, similar to Chaturaji, associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The name comes from the Enochian system of magic of Dr. John Dee (magus and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I), which was later adapted by Victorian members of the Golden Dawn into "a complete system of training and initiation".
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Post by Admin on May 11, 2022 23:27:08 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 18, 2022 21:18:43 GMT
The God Game (The God Series Book 1) by Mike Hockney
This is the introductory text of a series of thirty-two books called "the God Series" in which the most ancient secret society in the world – the Pythagorean Illuminati – reveal, for the first time in the public domain, the "answer to everything".
Read the God Series and you will become a convert to the world's only rational religion – Illuminism, the Pythagorean religion of mathematics that infallibly explains all things and guarantees everyone a soul that is not only eternal but also has the capacity to make each of us a true God.
Logician Kurt Gödel's religion of fourteen rational, logical points is entirely compatible with ontological mathematical Illuminism. Gödel said that the world is rational and materialism is false. He wrote, “I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.”
Zero is the number of the soul, and the soul has infinite capacity (only zero can contain infinity). Being dimensionless – a mathematical point, an immaterial singularity – the soul is outside the dimensional, material domain of space and time, hence the soul is indestructible, eternal and cannot be detected by any scientific experiment. It is unextended, as required by Descartes’ famous definition of the mind (res cogitans: thinking substance). A soul is an autonomous frequency domain, and it generates space and time via ontological Fourier mathematics, the definitive solution to Cartesian dualism (i.e. unextended mind produces extended matter via basic mathematical operations relating the unextended frequency domain to the extended spacetime domain).
Isn't it time to join the rational and logical? Isn't it time to be Illuminated?
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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2022 22:56:40 GMT
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2022 13:50:38 GMT
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Post by Admin on Aug 9, 2022 15:29:15 GMT
The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (S U N Y Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) by Stanislav Grof
In this, his culminating work, the leading international figure in consciousness research masterfully synthesizes his vast findings, drawing not only upon psychedelic therapy and Holotropic Breathwork, but also from literature, cross-cultural studies, ancient mystical sources and psychological data, resulting in a profound consolidation and articulation of what is now known about nonordinary states of consciousness.
The Cosmic Game discusses the broadest philosophical, metaphysical and spiritual insights gleaned in Grof's research concerning human nature and reality, addressing the most fundamental questions human beings have asked about the nature of existence since time immemorial.
Insights from research into nonordinary states of consciousness portray existence as an astonishing play of the cosmic creative principle that transcends time, space, linear causality, and polarities of every kind and suggest an identity of the individual psyche in its furthest reaches with the universal creative principle and the totality of existence. This identity of the human being with the Divine is the ultimate secret that lies at the core of all great spiritual traditions.
"What moves this book into the status of a classic is that it is in substantial agreement with the world's great wisdom and spiritual traditions. This modern corroboration of the perennial philosophy is a stunning achievement and deserves publication to the widest audiences." -- Ken Wilber, author of Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evoution and The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human Development
"The Cosmic Game is the latest and best of Stanislav Grof's extraordinary contributions to our understanding of human consciousness. This book provides a coherent picture of how individual experience fits into universal patterns of consciousness" -- Frances Vaughan, author of Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing through Spiritual Illusions
"Perhaps the most important of all his works, representing as it does an integration of the most profound of his clients' experiences and demonstrating a remarkable convergence with the deepest spiritual experiences reported across centuries and cultures. This convergence is a finding of the greatest significance." -- Roger Walsh, author of The Spirit of Shamanism
"Grof is the world's leading authority on the deep exploration of the mind and soul... This is a wonderful gift!" -- Charles Tart, author of States of Consciousness and Psi: Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm
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