It's Maundy Thursday once again and time to celebrate the Eucharist of The Last Supper where Jesus gave his disciples bread, saying, 'This is my body,' and wine, saying, 'This is my blood.' Today, Christians celebrate this tradition with a communion of crackers and grape juice, most without a second thought as to its origin. Yet, a few might still wonder why a ritual so blatantly cannibalistic would be accepted without question into modern day. Most are shocked to learn this tradition descends to us from sacrificial sun rites, the drinking of serpent venom and the consumption of psychotropic plants to induce visions - all under the guise of winemaking and communal consumption.

Professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Benny Shanon, proposes psychotropic plants, such as the Acacia bush, Amanita muscaria mushroom and ...

A couple of months ago, I threw a grand party at a modern art gallery near downtown Dallas to celebrate the release of my latest book. It wasn't so much a book signing as it was an experiment in musical science and philosophy. Let me explain.

The book is entitled The Grand Scientific Musical Theatre, which anyone can download free as a PDF e-book on InterferenceTheory.com here. It is a 3D storybook based on a real myth-rock band from Austin named Distant Lights.

As the story goes, the band's singer Gabe has a series of visions in which he is visited by neo-gothic characters who share with him various ancient truths that change his worldview. The visions reach a climax when he wakes up inside his own dream to bring what he learns to the world during a huge concert held on the evening of December 21, 2012. The twist to Gabe's psych...

Our schools and churches do not tell us everything. They don't tell us even the simplest things; things like the Earth-Moon system matches the geometry of a hen's egg and that both are a containment property of the golden mean, Φ = (√5 + 1) / 2.

While we don't hear much about it today (actually nothing about it), knowledge of this 'cosmic egg' geometry was apparently well known in the ancient world. The ancient Egyptian fable The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs speaks of this wisdom in philosophical terms long before Aesop wrote his fables. But the Great Pyramid of Khufu made it real. This triangular building was once a temple to the Earth-Moon ...

One of the things I came to understand during the writing of my first book Interference: A Grand Scientific Musical Theory was the association between the Fibonacci series ( 1,1,2,3,5,8,13, etc., spiraling toward the golden ratio 1.618033) and ancient mythologies who worshipped dragon-serpents.

Carving of St. George and the Dragon at Windsor Castle

Everywhere I looked I found the Fibonacci series associated with spirals and serpents. Because of this, I couldn't help but conclude that the stories and depictions of Christian crusaders slayin...

Imagine, if you will, a time before numbers. A time when people had not yet created symbols to represent quantity and order objects in the world. In this primordial, prehistoric world we might ask if numbers still existed, waiting to be discovered. If so, how might Nature itself count?

Well, Nature does indeed count for itself. All we have to do to prove this is look at the periodic table and notice that atoms have an increasing number of particles in their nucleus. Hydrogen has one, Helium has two, Lithium has three, and so on. Given this then, how did Nature learn to count using particles?

The easiest way to understand Nature's calculator is to look at what happens on a vibrating string. When a cello is bowed, it produces a particular pitch with a specific frequency of vibration. But it also creates 'sympathetic vibrations' called harmonics that are multiples of ...

While in London recently, my family and I went to see the musical Hair, a remake of the groundbreaking Broadway musical of the 1960's. With close-up seats at center stage, I can say unequivocally that it was the most impactful musical I have ever witnessed.

It brought back all of the emotions and social problems I experienced in the turbulent sixties, still very relevant today with two wars as meaningless as Vietnam. But there was one thing said in the musical that really got me to thinking. It was something that my parents told me back then that I always thought was good advice:

'You can do anything you want, as long as you don't hurt anyone.'

I always felt this one sentence summed up how we should behave in the world. Now, I'm not so sure that this is even possible. Bear with me as I try to explain what I mean.

- Our government kills thousands ...

There is a very simple way for each of us to know without a doubt that we are more than a material being. The proof for this is in the nether realm just before we fall asleep.

The next time you lay down to sleep, but before you drift off, ask yourself to try and visualize a scene - any scene - and then just relax. As your inner dialog ceases and begins to give into the darkness, your mind will usually begin to visualize.

You may imagine yourself walking through a house with a family member, meeting with people in an office or perhaps just standing on the corner of a small mountain town. You may even find yourself watching an entire scene play out like a movie as if you had suddenly materialized into another place and time.

The last time I did this, I found myself observing dozens of sailors on a dock at a small port, lo...

I was a teenager in the late 1960s / early 1970s and part of a counterculture family. We actively protested against the Vietnam war, provided a crash pad for activists of all kinds and embraced the most open and exotic ideas possible at that time. We listened to folk music, read the underground newspapers and often thought of ourselves as hippies. My parents were so liberal that I was even allowed to spend the entire summer of 1970 by myself with a band down in Austin playing R&B in biker bars. I was 15 years old.

Yet, while I was raised with the Age of Aquarius at the top of the charts and my stepfather ('Gray Eagle') as the designated photographer for the Rainbow Tribe, I never considered myself a 'New Ager.' Why? Because the term didn't exist back then. Instead, we were called 'hippies' or 'radicals.'

Today, we use the 'New Age' label to refer to alternative thinker...

In my own quest for understanding, I continue to be drawn to the study of the human mind and how it relates to the geometry of the head and body. I have always felt that clues to consciousness must exist in every part of the body and that we have but to understand the entire body to understand consciousness.

While writing my first book Interference, I found a way to reverse engineer the geometrical framework that guides cell growth in the body. The idea was that cells grow according to a harmonic interference pattern produced by a circle (or an outward resonant explosion) blended with a spiral (as an inward damping container). I came to understand that these two geometries can be found in all life because they represent the primordial interaction between light (or mass) as it travels through space.

It is a fact that as light travels through space, it is filtered by the cub...

This is a follow-up to my blog post entitled 'The Twin Pillars of Hercules.'

In that post, I discussed how the mountains either side of the Strait of Gibraltar could have symbolized two golden ratios in a musical tone where a standing wave will naturally damp out enharmonic or fractional waves, thus enabling the piggyback formation of harmonics. While it is a musical example, the same physics applies to a vibrating container regardless of whether we're discussing a guitar string, an octave, a circular plate of vibrating sand or even our solar system.

I also suggested that this knowledge was known in ancient times and could have been behind the mythology that a mountain (personified as Atlas) was located at the western end of the Mediterranean Sea and that Hercules cleaved it in half, opening up the Strait of Gibraltar to Atlantis (Atlas = Atlantis = Atlantic). I even sugge...