2 posts tagged “design”
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Everyone has heard the cliché phrase, “you create your own reality,” but has anyone ever stopped to contemplate just how that process might work and how it could be true? Sure, if we focus on something about ourselves long enough, we tend to harmonize with it and start imitating it in our lives, thereby becoming that thing. But in addition to that, I believe our subconscious mind is actually changing reality to our subconscious desires and aversions; our mind is syncing with quantum events and transforming the apparent random universe to our innate wishes and fears, thereby crystallizing reality into what is occurring within our own brain and subconscious mind.
The scientific school of reductionism has stipulated for years that there is no scientific proof mind and matter are connected. Nevertheless, researchers have now witnessed this connection through experiment, and it can now be proven utilizing the scientific method that there is indeed a connection! It is obvious from various studies done within the last several decades that our minds have the ability to shape matter and reality. This ability to influence does not only occur in our present time, but research has also shown that our minds can even effects events from the past as well. I call this retroactive magick! That is really what we are talking about here, a true magickal connection with reality. However, the magick of the past will become the science of the future, as we learn more and more about this process. Only recently has science begun to see and experiment with this relationship, and it is now beginning to see there is sync between mental states and events, especially in regards to global mind and planetary occurrences.
Quantum physicists have known since the middle of last century that an experiment is wholly determined by the mind of the experimenter. They contend that a quantum event is permanently determined, “collapsing the waveform,” when a perceiver's mind has witnessed the actual quantum occurrence. “Collapsing the waveform” made physicists speculate and joke that the universe was not really manifest when not being perceived, like a huge swirl of nothingness occurring just out of sight; it was only crystallized into reality upon perception. Our minds appear to be the one force that distinguishes deterministic states from indeterminism and pure randomness.
This process of manifestation is not that difficult to perform once you understand the techniques needed to accomplish it. For instance, the process of creative visualization creates a holographic representation and imprint upon the ethers of space-time, also know as the “quantum vacuum” and the “Akashic field.” It consequently creates what chaos theorists call an “attractor point,” which then pulls the current frame of reality and space-time towards it. Reality transforms and changes into this holographic “attractor point,” as the random and chaotic system we call the universe flows into it. Consequently, this is why it is so important to keep goals out in front of you, for without a goal or “attractor point,” we aimlessly wander without any direction. However with goals, the system we call our life has an “attractor point” to move towards. It must be noted, this same process is what accounts for the horrible things that happen in our life, for we tend to manifest our most wonderful desires and our darkest fears.
This merging of mind and matter is why rumor can be so dangerous, because it “collapses the waveform” and crystallizes a perspective of someone or something, thereby locking an individual or a group into false and inauthentic viewpoints within the mind of the perceivers. This is also how untrue gossip spreads so easily; it “collapses the waveform” and creates and crystallizes a new morphic field of untrue information about the subject of the gossip. This new morphic field then colors the perspectives of future people that become part of the gossip pool.
The occurrence of synchronicity is a perfect instance of mind syncing with matter. This is a meaningful coincidence whereby the contents of our mind seem to bleed into the world around us. If the contents of our head determine the unfolding of physical consequences, then it behooves us all to fill our mind and being with positive and beneficent thoughts and energies, so as to manifest a harmonious and conducive environment for ourselves and those around us.
The real secret behind the western esoteric tradition, especially alchemy, is the ability of the mind to transmute oneself and the world and the conditions outside us. This is accomplished by emanating divine light and transmuting ourselves and the world around us to a higher octave of vibration. The Kabbalah, Gnostic Christianity, and Sufism all understand and utilize this occult secret. It seems that these secrets have been buried within our esoteric traditions for a long time, and it is only now rising to the surface and being rediscovered. Society is beginning to wake up and realize these long hidden secrets of our connection to the world. We are the makers of our own reality, and all the global thoughts that we have help manifest the events we encounter. There is randomness to our space-time continuum, to be sure! However, our mind adds to this randomness and helps to shape it into what we observe. We were all created as co-creators in this universe, and we are now discovering how powerful our thought really is!
Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
Founder, Omega Point Institute
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The Number 23
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel
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2/23/2007
The number 23 has some very curious properties, properties that cause one step back and say, "hmmm...isn't that strange," thereby giving a glimpse into the synchronized structure of time and materiality. The temporal anomaly of this synchronistic 23 has been the subject of several notable authors, and it has undoubtedly shown its' realistic nature in my life going back to when I was 23. The questions that remains in my mind is...does this number have any real significance, or is it that reality is so malleable that it is aligning itself to my and a group of people's beliefs, much like the Law of Attraction of "The Secret" espouses? As you will see this number is an immense synchronicity in my own life, and it has definitely given me moments of pause and wonder. The creative minds of hollywood have now discovered this strange occurrence and have now made a blockbuster movie. The Director Joel Schumacher created the movie, "The Number 23," staring Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen. And although I have not yet seen the movie, I think their take on the 23 phenomena is that it is a bad thing. I will see it later today, 2-23, the day I was due to be born, precisely, Feb. 23. But nonetheless, I will leave it to you to give its' nature a quality. It has been both bad and good in my life.
One of the intriguing facts of synchronicity is that it can occur around a certain number. When I was 23 I was introduced to the concept of "23 skidoo." It was through a fiction novel, Illuminatus Trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson. I had found the book by casually browsing through the local bookstore, desiring some light reading to offset my other studies. I can honestly say my life has not been the same since that time. Reading through that novel I was introduced to the term, "23 skidoo", and I soon became aware of the number's association with synchronicity. From a Jungian perspective, synchronicity can be defined as, "a meaningful coincidence; it is the occurrence of events that seemingly have no causal relationship, but are in fact related." Strangely, I was soon to see 23 manifested in many of my life's turning points.
Robert Anton Wilson was introduced to the concept of 23 by William S. Burroughs. Burroughs' relay's the story that while living in Tangiers, Morocco a Captain Clark was explaining to him that for 23 years he had piloted a ferry without incidence, only to have that same ferry sink that day killing everyone onboard. That same evening Burroughs switched on his radio to hear about a plane that had gone down, flight #23, piloted by another Captain Clark. After that, Burroughs began noticing the number 23 popping up at odd times and in a synchronous manner. So, this is the birth of the Number 23 synchronicity. It must be noted that a male and a female each contribute 23 chromosomes to a newly formed fetus, and every 23rd angstrom of the genetic coil an anomaly occurs. Not to mention, the earth is tilted at 23 degrees, and the 23rd I-Ching hexagram indicates that it represents separation or breaking apart; I could not agree more.
One of the predominate effects of an adept on the path to enlightenment is the occurrence of synchronicity. In fact, a person desiring to tap the power of the new spiritual paradigm can begin by noticing the level of synchronicity within their lives. An acknowledgement of this paranormal effect can propel a person upon their path to awakening and enlightenment.
In 1993 I graduated from college, and my parents decided to purchase me a vacation for a graduation gift. Simultaneously, a close friend had just cleared up a visa issue in Dublin, Ireland, and he wanted to go on vacation as well. We decided on a ski vacation to Park City, Utah, and we began purchasing our tickets. When I received mine in the mail from the travel agent I was taken back with horror. We were to meet in Dallas and catch a flight to Park City together; the only problem was that the flight number was 323 and was scheduled to depart at 10:23. Needless to say, I was very troubled by this event, in light of the fact that one week before I had a very strange dream involving the number 23. In the dream a person before me was dribbling a basketball, and he wore a jersey with a huge 23 embossed upon it. Suddenly, my left ankle was in severe pain, and I reached down to grab it. This woke me up, and I quickly glanced at the clock while still grasping my left leg. The clock eerily displayed the numbers 10:23! I was so upset by this episode that I called my girlfriend to relay this strange string of events.
I am not usually a very superstitious person, but all these 23's had me wondering. I actually visited a close friend who was aware of 23 to share my innate fear of the situation. I said, "Scott, I really don't want to go on this trip. What if the plane crashes or what if I break my leg skiing?" I really had an intrinsic fear of going to Utah for the Christmas vacation. Scott assured me I was taking myself too seriously and to go and just have fun, so I decided to quit being a killjoy and to take his advice.
Simon and I met up in Dallas and took the doomed flight to Utah; I knew it had been a bad idea when I arrived and they did not have a rental car awaiting me. After many hours and several calls to corporate HQ the rental agent finally had a car for us to use. We were on our way, and I was having so much fun I hadn't even thought about the 23's.
It was the second day of our vacation; we were at the bottom of the mountain. Simon wanted to go back up, but I didn't. Then, the strangest change of hearts occurred; I wanted to go up, but Simon had second thoughts. We went up anyway. At the top I needed to use the bathroom; however, Simon incessantly kept pleading with me to go at the bottom of the run. So, like an idiot, I followed his pleas. We were about halfway down the run on a slope called "Treasure Hollow;" my right knee kept going out because of a spill I had that occurred on the first day, and it proceeded to happen again. I went down and was sliding to come back up when I looked over my shoulder, and I saw a guy totally out of control barreling toward me. The guy couldn't stop, and a huge impact occurred; we rolled over each other, as we went down the slope. Unfortunately, I saw my leg buckle in half, and I had to hold my boot to keep from losing my foot. We came to a stop, and I realized my left leg had been broken at the ankle. I screamed in dire pain, as Simon went to get the ski patrol. My mind had seen the event, or more precisely I created the event. I spent 10 days in the hospital in Salt Lake City over Christmas then I flew home. When I returned home the orthopedic surgeon told me I would have to have a rod inserted in my bone to not lose any height. I had the operation over New Years and was discharged to go home a heal.
It was now 1994, since the turn of the New Years, the same number my birthday adds up to: 1+9+9+4=23. That realization was enough to hammer home the idea of the number 23 and its synchronistic occurences. Due to the fact that I had a rod put into my leg I did not have a cast; the only thing covering my leg was a lot of gauze. One afternoon I got curious about my injury and began removing the gauze. My leg looked black and blue, and there were many staples in my leg where the incisions from the operation had occurred. I counted all the staples in my leg out of morbid fascination; I counted 23 in all, 23! I thought a cruel joke had been played on me, and all the Gods were laughing. This could not be! How could 23 manifest itself in my life with such ubiquity? I began looking for any reference to the number 23.
Approximately 1 ½ years later a friend gave me 37 rare, imported beers, and at the time my girlfriend, which was my high school sweetheart, and myself were not getting along very well. Out of depression, I decided to drink 6 of the beers on wed, 6 on Thursday, and I had drank 6 on Friday. Then it occurred to me that must be unlucky, 666! With all the biblical references I thought there was something eerie about that number. Consequently, I drank the 7th and last beer. That created a different number, 667, and I felt much better about things. I decided to look up the number in Aleister Crowley's book "777" to learn what it might possibly mean. The book told me it meant - Oil for lightening, and its' prime number of division was listed as 23. I could not believe my eyes; just then the phone rang, and it was my girlfriend; she wanted to inform me we were no longer a couple; she wanted to break things off. I then realized it was October 23, 1995. Was this number ever going to leave me alone? I was now by myself to think long and hard about life and all its' weird occurrences.
Several months into my solo sabbatical I was reading a book I had purchased about magick. It was called, "The Magic(k)ian's Dictionary," and what it revealed about the number 23 was outstanding. Under the heading of chaos prediction I learned that oil locaters and stock brokers were utilizing chaos theory for success. It said, "If the wrong people get hold of this key they will be able to control all random factors in the world to their advantage. Innate creativity may have an underlying chaotic process that selectively amplifies small fluctuations. The amplification of small fluctuations (characteristic of Chaos) and its bibranching can be examined by values of growth factors at which bifurcations take place using "Feigenbaum's Number": 4,669. Its whole number factors are 7, 23, 29, 161, 203 and 667. " I was astounded to say the very least. Could it be that 23 was a product of chaos theory? It appeared that this happened to be the case. Finally, there was some substance behind all the madness. The number 23 and 667 were included in the definition--23*29=667. I decided to investigate this Feigenbaum fellow and chaos theory a little deeper.
A couple months later I was invited to go out with some friends. During our outing I met Neysa Wentworth, a girl I ended up dating for about 3 years. We met on June 23, 1996, a very notable date for me. I must say this girl really got under my skin; even after our breakup we remained best friends. Numbers at this point played a big part of my life; As Jim Carrey was in the movie, I was nearly obsessed studying the occurrence of 23 in license plates, on clocks, and the odometer. I found an overwhelming amount of 23 synchronicities utilizing this technique.
About a year later Neysa was really sick one night. As a result, I decided to take her to the hospital; it was August 29, no big deal. They decided to keep her over night to monitor her condition. Of all the rooms they had, they put her into room 23. 23*29=667! Synchronicity struck again, this time manifesting several of the numbers involved with chaos prediction. This 23 synchronicity was becoming very scary. In 1999, Neysa and I parted company, but we remained very good friends, talking on the phone several times a week. Neysa voiced her dire concern about turning 23; I told her it was just a number and to not give it any power. Ha!
Later that year I decided to go out with a friend. While we were driving around we were pulled over by a cop. Unwittingly, my friend had received a suspended license after an accident he had due to a computer foul up and an insurance issue. The police took him off to jail, and I was left to drive his car home. It was November 23, 1999. The next day I bailed him out, and he went on to share an interesting story with me. While in the slammer he ran into two close friends; they had also been arrested for fighting with a guy that tried to break into their car. The next day I met these two individuals, and they showed me the arrest report. The report displayed some incredible information. They were arrested on November 23 on 23rd street at 11:23 P.M. How could the number 23 be any more synchronistic than that?
In 2001 I took a job with a computer company in Phoenix, Arizona. It was a very nice job; however, my office was on the 23rd floor. This number was obviously never going to leave me alone. Unfortunately, after approximately 8 months, the company claimed bankruptcy and closed their doors. This left me in a very bad situation; I was in the middle of Arizona with no job. Thankfully a job became available, and I moved to North Carolina and took a job in the import/export furniture business.
While in North Carolina, during the autumn of 2001, a most horrific thing occurred. On 9-11-2001 our country was attacked by a fanatical cult of terrorists. The World Trade Center was decimated, and the pentagon was badly damaged. Strangely enough, 9+11+2+0+0+1=23; a global nightmarish synchronicity had occurred. I decided to investigate the tragedy even more, and I soon discovered there where 23's involved all over the place. Let me begin. The last piece of metal was placed in the WTC on December, 23, 1970. The soil removed from the WTC footprint was used in a landfill in the Hudson River to create a new park; the landfill was 23 acres big. On July 23rd, 2001, just 7 weeks prior to the attacks, the New York Port Authority leased the entire WTC complex for 99 years. In 1999 Mayor Rudolf Guiliani created a crisis center on the 23rd floor of WTC 7 for instances of bad weather or a possible terrorists attack; this building also collapsed from all the damage! This was a huge, horrid 23 synchronicity!
During the Christmas season of that year I went to Louisville, Kentucky with my mother to visit relatives. On our return to North Carolina she was driving; we were somewhere in West Virgina, and I was explaining synchronicity to her as we drove. We were in the fast lane; In the slow lane I could see a flat bed 18 wheeler truck, underneath were a series of wenches for tightening the belts draped across the truck. The last one was wiggling and seemed to be loose. All of a sudden, the wench came off and crashed through the passenger side of the front windshield and landed in my lap. I was covered with glass, and my mom called the police on the cell phone. When the police arrived he told me how lucky I was; he had seen the same thing happen earlier that week, killing the passenger and the person in the back seat. He called for an ambulance to help me get rid of all the glass. The ambulance showed up and helped me remove all the glass shards; however, the ambulance was number 23. My mother and I looked strangely at each other, especially after the conversation we just had had.
It was Easter weekend 2002. My Father and Grandmother were in town from Louisville for the weekend. It was the Saturday night before Easter Sunday, and I had just returned home and had retired to my bedroom for the evening. I picked up the phone, and it issued an intermittent tone, indicating I had messages waiting. Upon checking the messages, a voice said in a very desperate tone, "please call me as soon as possible, there is a serious emergency with Neysa." I quickly called her residence and the voice answered. They informed me that Neysa had died the night before in her car on the way home from work. Terror and shock yanked at my soul. I called her mom and she confirmed for me the bad news. The following week she emailed me a copy of the newspaper article about the accident. The newspaper showed her battered car in vivid detail, and the headline read, "Girl Dies At Age 23." The only problem was Neysa was 25 at the time! Another horrendous synchronicity; A synchronicity I will never forget as long as walk this Earth! Neysa was dead!
I decided to gather my thoughts, so I moved back to Orlando. Everything was going relatively well considering! I think I moved back to Orlando to visit the past after Neysa's death. The 23s had seemed to leave me alone for some time. Unfortunately, on 3-19 I was returning home, and my car stalled on the I-4 exit to Kirkman Drive. I had no shoulder to leave my car in, so I got to the side and began pushing my car out of the way. Horrendously, a driver from behind failed to avoid me and hit my car going over 70 MPH. According to witnesses, the rear of my car was thrown upward, nearly going end over end. I was thrown 15 or 20 feet in the air, and the car came down on top of me. The Life Flight that was called thought I was dead and decided not to land; the police had informed them I was a goner. I was luckily transported to Orlando Regional Hospital, which was about 15 minutes away. I had broken my right leg in two spots, all of the ribs on my right side, and I had broken my right shoulder, not to mention my nose. I had also collapsed my right lung and was very near death. I was in a coma for over a month. When I came to, I was in the hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. I later discovered that the date 3-19 is 23 days after my birthday!
As I have shown 23 is firmly embedded within chaos mathematics and Feigenbaum's number, 4,669. It may be that there is some hidden force behind all the madness. Chaos mathematicians espouse that what we see as disorder and randomness is in actuality a higher order that we are unable to witness and process. I believe that one day science will untangle the mystery of 23 and synchronicity. Parapsychologists know that it is the subject's intent that greatly effects how and if paranormal effects manifest. In that respect I definitely look to the future with a positive perspective, and I expect to only have synchronicities of a positive nature from here on out.
A year ago the most amazing occurrences of 23 happened to me and a neighbor. This is after I had explicated the 23 phenomena to him, which he immediately began seeing in his life... For instance, he began dating a girl on the 23rd of Nov., and she happened to be 23 year old. However, her birthday was on June 23rd, in which she turned 24. Not to mention, one day we counted 23 items on the wall of his bedroom. But all that aside, all three of us experienced the most profound occurrences of 23 to date ... His father was an actor starring in a local stage play, and we made reservations to go see him on July 24. We all 3 went to the theater that day and went to the box office to get our tickets. After getting the tickets, they all 3 displayed the wrong date for the appearance...it should have displayed Sun. July 24...but instead it showed Sun...July 23rd. That would have been strange enough for there to have been a misprint of all the tickets and for 3 people aware of the 23 synchronicity to have got them. But even stranger was the fact we asked everybody else to see their tickets, and we were the only 3 people to have that date printed on ours that we found! We were the only 3! Ok,Ok...some might say your reading too much into it, and that is definitely possible. We were all 3 just taken back by the synchronicity, and I and my friend are talking about it while walking up his driveway toward the swinging bench we sit at all the time. I said, "how odd...out of everyone at the theater... we 3 get the only tickets with a misprint involving 23.... How Ironic!" I looked at the bench and smiled then said, "wouldn't it be so odd, if at this very moment we counted all the slats of wood that make up the bench and found it to only contain 23 pieces of wood?" He said, " I just fall down out of amazement"! We counted them and counted exactly 23 slats of wood! I swear! The next day his girlfriend came over, and we're telling her about the bench. I'm sure she already thought I was a magician! It totally freaked her out, witnessing what had happened at the theater. There was a rail across the front of the porch I was leaning on supported by numerous poles.... She said, "can you do it again...can you manifest 23?" I said, "I highly doubt it, but let's count the poles that support this railing! Yup... 23 again! No lie! She started crying, and said "how do you do that? You're a witch!!" I said, I'm not doing anything...it is obviously something to do with the structure of the universe...calm down...let's go inside and get you a glass of water. We went in and were preparing the glass of water. She was looking freaked out, and she started counting the cabinets in the kitchen. I said, "stop and chill out...it won't happen again.. .you can't force it...., but she the continued to count 23 cabinets..23! She said, "Something is going on!!" Something is going on, and now Hollywood has gotten a hint of this High Wierdness!
Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Jonathan.McGregor.Bethel@gmail.com
Omega Point Institute
