Finding our place in the cosmic hierarchy — The Great Chain of Being is a schematic organizational structure of the hierarchy of existence as believed by Christians during medieval times. The diagram above does an excellent job of capturing the concept. On the bottom is a graphic illustration of Hell and its punishments which mirrored the tortures being…

And the history of the pentagram — Recently my friend and fellow writer Jonathan Poletti left a note on one of my articles asking if I had done any writing on the Star of David. It turns out that I hadn’t. Until now, that is. That’s right! …

Never underestimate the value of woo — Unpacking sphere-packing People must wonder why I spend so much time and energy writing about sphere-packing. What is the point? Why should anyone care about how balls fit together? For my answer to make any sense, we need to go back to around 4000 BC when clay tokens of specific shapes were…

It ain’t gonna kill ya — When we think about the fruit of knowledge, we usually assume that it has something to do with sex, if we think about it at all. In this article, I will reveal the actual identity of the fruit based on the details available within Genesis. As those who follow my…

What one has to do with the other — My last few articles have been focused on examining the seven days of Biblical Genesis by means of several apparently unrelated systems. These systems are the I-Ching, astrology, and the close-packing of equal spheres. Up to this point, my manner of presentation has been to go through each of the…

What one has to do with the other — My last few articles have been focused on examining the seven days of Biblical Genesis by means of several apparently unrelated systems. These systems are the I-Ching, astrology, and the close-packing of equal spheres. In my previous article, I went through the seven days as decrypted through sphere packing. This…

What one has to do with the other — The I-Ching In this article, we will look at the use of the ancient Chinese text the I-Ching or Book of Changes. This text is made up of sixty-four hexagrams. The word hexagram means six lines. Each hexagram is made of six lines which come in two varieties, whole or broken. Each…

Day four: A reexamination of the fourth of the seven days of creation — 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give…

Day three: A reexamination of the third of the seven days of creation — 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was…

Day two: A reexamination of the second of the seven days of creation — 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was…

Day one: A reexamination of the first of the seven days of creation — 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were…

Day zero: A reexamination of the prologue to the seven days of creation — 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Gen 1:1–2 KJV) When I read this, I see…

Ask a seven-day-old child about the place of life — This article is going to be a lot like my last one which you can read here. I’ve written these articles to demonstrate how the Gospel of Thomas¹ seems to operate. Let’s take a look at a fairly complex saying: Saying 11: Those Who Are Living Won’t Die Jesus said, “This heaven will disappear, and the one above…

Is music the universal language? — In Steven Spielberg’s 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the aliens communicate using a system combing color and musical notes. Notice in the clip below the hand signs given at the 15-second mark by French scientist Claude Lacombe, played by François Truffaut. These hand signs were invented…

The lost keys to cosmic thought —

Can you answer this ancient koan? — What is a koan? A koan is a paradoxical word, phrase, or story used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the limits of logical thought and to bring about illumination. One of the earliest and most well-known koans within the Zen tradition is mu-koan. The word mu basically means “not”. It was used in reply…

When sphere packing meets the trigram — Recently I have been writing articles about an ancient esoteric system based on structures built from balls. My claim is that this system is the foundational system of what would eventually become astrology and the I-Ching. This system starts with a single ball and then at each level an additional…

The Arthashastra, and the 64 Arts — The Kama Sutra is famous for being a manual of sexual positions. It is however much more than that. The name of the Kama Sutra is itself interesting. The word sutra refers to a specific sort of Indian literature. Sutras were manuals filled with aphorisms on specific topics. The word…

What binds the I-Ching and Kama Sutra — In an earlier article, I wrote about the octahedron, which is formed from six spheres. I showed how those six spheres fit together to make the eight trigrams of the I-Ching.

You are doing it wrong — The coin method Using coins to cast hexagrams has been the standard method of casting hexagrams since the Tang Dynasty (608–907AD). We will quickly review this method as it is the easiest however, bear in mind that it does not produce the results with the same probabilities as the original yarrow stalk method.