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 egg, celebrating the golden mean in nature for all to see. The ancient Egyptian Naga knew that this 'divine proportion' contained everything and all things originated from it, bringing the world into a fine balance for life to evolve.

The truth is the entire solar system is a series of such eggs - nested one within another like a giant Russian Matryoshka doll - all resonating out of the Sun's golden heliospheric spiral. We live inside this solar Matryoshka - growing in the yolk of an enormous fractal egg laid by the Milky Way. We wait to hatch, yet most wait completely unaware.

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 slaying dragons was actually a symbolic depiction of Christianity slaying paganism. More than this, it was also the slaying of Venus, a central theme in virtually every pre-Christian religion, whose 13:8 pentagonal orbit (known as the Star of Bethlehem) represents a Fibonacci interval near the beautiful golden ratio.

A good example of what I'm referring to can be found in Hindu mythology.

In Hindu lore, the lord of riches is named Kubera. He is known to love gold. This gold, known as 'Kubera's treasure' or 'Kubera's honey' is said to be kept in a cave guarded by dragon-serpents. 'It gives to mortals immortality; it makes the blind see; it restores youth to the aged.' Some believe this story is connected to the Greek golden fleece, which is also protected by dragon-serpents.

Kubera is said to own 'the playground of the gods' which lay at the mountain-top where the gods dance. This mountain-top is also where the spirits of the waters live and dance, which is called the 'lake of lotuses of gold.'

Now, the regular attendants of Kubera are the Nagas or mahorayas, the cobra-serpents famous for stealing and hiding jewels. These Nagas hide his gold inside their serpent holes. To find this treasure, one must seek it with the help of the Serpent of the Depth, Ahi Budhnya, together with the combined aid of Agni and Kubera. It is said: 'brilliant is the golden stone guarded by serpents.'

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 the fundamental frequency, such as 2 times as fast, 3 times as fast, 4 times as fast and so on. The same thing happens when atoms form - light harmonics intersect at different harmonic frequencies to form what we call particles and atoms. This is how Nature counts - with waves - and is the idea behind quantum string theory.

But, the bigger puzzle with all this is how Nature avoids creating fractional waves and thus fractional atoms. Why aren't there harmonics that form, for instance, at 2.5, 3.71 or 5.238 times the fundamental frequency? Well, the answer for this is found in how everything physical - all things we call 'matter' - are made up of whole number light harmonics while everything else is suppressed and kept from becoming matter. This, of course, means that in the natural world, real (fractional) numbers do not exist!

Ok, ok, the truth is they do exist, but not materially. What I mean is they exist in the gaps between whole number harmonics and thus between material particle structure. So-called 'real numbers' then exist in space itself and not in material structure. We can understand how this works by grasping the true relationship between energy and space.

Nature counts by first creating a space 'plenum' (a pressurized container) that weaves light into harmonic particles. For this to happen, space must be structured into a cubic lattice or loom. But not with little lines separating the cubes, like an ice tray, instead with a cubic spacing of tiny vortices. Like the massive black holes at the center of every spiral galaxy, there is an infintessimally small black hole at the center of each of these cube regions. In this way, space can be described as perforated, as if someone took a pin and poked holes everywhere in space to let it breathe. In quantum mechanics, this is called a Schwartzschild lattice and the breathing process is known as zero-point energy.

Now, as light moves through this structured cubic space (of infinitesimal pinpricks), it flows around these holes - first one side, then the other - forming waves as it does so. It also resonates off the edges or 'event horizons' of the quantum holes, forming harmonics that weave particles called neutrinos, which then weave into larger particles, such as electrons, neutrons and protons. And as pressure is applied (inside stars), each of the atomic elements resonate and fuse together into different frequencies of matter. We call this capturing process 'nuclear fusion.' Nuclear fissi...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Sat, 29 May 2010 05:56:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/Hair-revisited-797.html While in London recently, my family and I went to see the musical Hair, a remake of the groundbreaking Broadway musical of the 1960s. 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 th 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 of people in war, including many innocent men, women and children, under the guise of national security. We elect the government officials who approve and fund these wars. Are we not - each of us - hurting people by doing this?

- To make a living, we are forced to drive automobiles to work, to the store and to visit friends, injuring and killing many of us in car accidents in the process. Our food and clothes are also brought to us in trucks, trains, planes and ships, polluting our environment, causing health problems, bringing climate change and triggering extinctions. And how about that oil spill in the Gulf? Even though our involvement in the oil and transportation economy is involuntary, Is this not hurtful?

- Electromagnetic radiation (from our gizmos) and food additives present significant health risks and are the most likely cause for increased cancer rates. Our purchases provide profits to the companies that make and sell these things. We have little choic...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Mon, 03 May 2010 10:18:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/Common-sense-proof-for-the-existence-of-spirit-783.html 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. Y

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, loading and unloading sailing ships.

The scene appeared to be some time in the 17th century, complete with period clothing and sailing ships fully rigged, swaying in the water. The people did not appear to be acting according to any specific plot, but instead captured in the middle of whatever they were doing. When I became aware of what was happening, I regained ordinary consciousness and immediately wondered what had just happened.

As I lay there in bed staring into the inky blackness, I asked myself two things. First, why had I visualized that particular scene? It seemed to be quite ordinary, apart from the fact that it was a scene out of the past, and seemed to have no possible connection to anything I had experienced or watched in a movie or on TV. Furthermore, it did not seem metaphorical like a dream in any way I could discern.

The second thing I wondered was how could my brain visualize and animate such a complex scene so complete and perfect in every detail? How could the neurons in my brain suddenly fire in such a coherent way as to construct such a detailed scene - an entire world, really - that was not a memory of anything I could recall ever experiencing. More perplexing than this - I had not consciously worked to visualize this scene or will it to happen in any way. I had just relaxed when it appeared instantly and completely, playing out in time with physics so convincing it was as real as anything I had ever experienced in real life. What was going on?

The only answer that made any sense to me was I had not manufactured it at all. Instead, my brain had somehow tuned into the scene.

While there is no way to know if the scene had been an actual event from the past, an event from some other world or even an event manufactured in some archetypal realm or dimension, I was sure that the hardware of my brain was not cre...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:21:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/The-Now-Age-674.html 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 RB 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) a 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 thinkers, idealists or simply anyone who has an unorthodox worldview. On the last aisle of your local bookstore, it is the New Age section where you will find information about the occult, secret societies, psychic phenomena, psychedelics, astrology, UFOs, conspiracies and 2012. Since my books on harmonic science tend to intersect many of these topics, this is where they would be found too, if I were to sell them through bookstores.

So, in spite of the fact that I am academically trained in science and spent 25 years as a software developer and businessman -- speaking to people about market trends, new technologies and 'the next great thing' -- I am now categorized as a New Age writer and speaker. Who exactly decided this?

Maybe this is not the place to say it, but I don't much like this label. Not because I don't write about the coming change and hope for the spiritual advancement of the planet - I do - but, because this label carries with it a whole lot of baggage and is cult...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:03:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/The-Human-Nautilus-660.html 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 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 cubic quantum lattice of space, transforming its chaotic full-spectrum broadcast into a coherent harmonic standing wave. This must occur in the evolution of life too, since life is essentially crystallized light, becoming more coherent, resonant and harmonically structured over time. It is not only natural selection that shapes life, but also movement through space.

We can understand this as the physics behind Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man illustration and its 'squaring of the circle.' As most know by now, Leonardo drew the circle and the square over the figure of a man to show how their proportions correspond to the archetypal human form. But what he did not do is draw the golden (or Fibonacci) spiral that forms the umbilical cord. This is a very important element because it demonstrates how the body resonates out of an electromagnetic torsion field that surrounds all life.

As a matter of fact, the body begins its life as a spiral, becoming more harmonic (more coherent and focused) as it travels through space and evolves in time. As it becomes more harmonic, its spiral geometry interferes or combines with the harmonic wave geometry, until it reaches coherence. This process begins as an embryo, reaching its pinnacle (or pentacle) in human beings as self-awareness and consciousness.

But even as I came to understand how the physics and mathematics of resonating circles and spirals work together in DNA to shape the macro structu...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:41:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/The-Gibraltar-Star-625.html 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 were 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 tim 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 suggested that the shape of the two mountains could have been seen as a physical symbol or archetype for the pattern created by harmonics over an octave.

Well, I'm now going to provide more evidence to support my hypothesis.

If you type 'Strait of Gibraltar' into Google Earth, it will take you very close to the Rock of Gibraltar. If you then scroll over and hover your mouse over the tip of this giant rock and look to see the latitude reading at the bottom, you will notice that it reads EXACTLY 36 degrees. Not approximate - exact.

Since there are 180 degrees latitude running north-south from the equator through the north pole and back to the equator, the rock of Gibraltar is located precisely one-tenth of the circumference of the Earth running through the poles. In fact, the entire Mediterranean appears to balanced around this 36 degree latitude, passing through Malta until it reaches a small town in Turkey on the eastern most end of the Mediterr...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:23:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/Our-multi-choice-reality-623.html There is really something quite profound about how digital media technology is changing human society. We can never be sure that what we see in a magazine, on TV or at the movies is real or synthesized. Now more than ever, people have to choose which illusion they want to believe in. Seeing is no longer believing.But it doesnt stop there. Time becomes virtual as we use voice mail, email, community forums and video sharing to post messages into the future and around the world. Even people themselves appear virtual through text messaging, 3D chat rooms and video conferencing. And this will only become more convincing as 3D video and There is really something quite profound about how digital media technology is changing human society. We can never be sure that what we see in a magazine, on TV or at the movies is real or synthesized. Now more than ever, people have to choose which illusion they want to believe in. Seeing is no longer believing.

But it doesn't stop there. Time becomes virtual as we use voice mail, email, community forums and video sharing to post messages into the future and around the world. Even people themselves appear virtual through text messaging, 3D chat rooms and video conferencing. And this will only become more convincing as 3D video and holographic projectors become available. Add to this embedded computing, personalized web agents, intelligent appliances, smart cars and semi-autonomous robots, and our lives will become more virtual still. Human experience is becoming synthesized - non-physical in space and time - while our experiences become less and less physical.

Now, in the interest of full disclosure I have to admit that I helped bring this all about. My 25-year career in digital media and the Internet brought me into contact with many of the people who made this happen and was directly involved in some of the advances. I continue to live a lot of my life over the Internet and am even working on a book using 3D virtual characters who portray a real myth-rock band named Distant Lights out of Austin.

Yet, I wonder what effect all of this will have on society. How much 'virtual' is negative and how much is positive? I've thought about this for years and here is the future I see:

1. A population with increasingly impaired interpersonal and language skills, thus depending more and more on pictures and gestures,

2. People who know less about the natural world, spend less time outside and are more concerned with manmade constructs,

3. Increasing political and religious polarization due to like-minded online communities.

4. A population who is less controlled by the public institutions, but more controlled by special interest groups in diverse locations,

5. People who cannot reach a consensus in their local community,

6. Increasing reliance on automation to deal with the physical world, leaving more time to spend in the virtual world with imaginary friends and abstract ideas.

All together, this paints a picture of increasing social fragmentation within an artificial world. One could imagine something like The Matrix or Avatar where we sit plugged into a cyberworld we have created, playing out whatever fantasy we like.

But wait a minute! Isn't that what the world is anyway? Isn't a tribal society what we're talking about here? A small number of like-minded people who gather aroun...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:27:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/The-Twin-Pillars-of-Hercules-576.html After finishing my last article Eleven that described my experience (and apparent widespread phenomenon) of seeing elevens, I watched Avias excellent video about this same subject. Her comments about the symbolic meaning of two ones and duality are right on target, which prompted me to further connect this phenomena with the physics and mythology of harmonic resonance.As many of you know, the symbolism of dual pillars are found throughout history. The most recent are the twin towers, but it goes way back. From Alexander the Great finding twin golden pillars with strange inscriptions to the twin pillars in Solomons temple After finishing my last article Eleven that described my experience (and apparent widespread phenomenon) of 'seeing elevens', I watched Avia's excellent video about this same subject. Her comments about the symbolic meaning of two ones and duality are right on target, which prompted me to further connect this phenomena with the physics and mythology of harmonic resonance.

As many of you know, the symbolism of dual pillars are found throughout history. The most recent are the twin towers, but it goes way back. From Alexander the Great finding twin golden pillars with strange inscriptions to the twin pillars in Solomon's temple to (my favorite) the Pillars of Hercules in Greek mythology.

This last story goes as follows. When Hercules was tackling his twelve labours, he came upon a great mountain. This mountain was said to have once been Atlas holding up the world. But instead of climbing the mountain, Hercules smashed through it using his mighty club, thus cleaving it into two mountains. These became the two mountains either side of the Strait of Gibraltar located on the western-most end of the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and north Africa, opening to the Atlantic. They were named the Pillars of Hercules.

Interestingly, Plato claimed that the lost realm of Atlantis was situated beyond the Pillars of Hercules, placing it in the realm of the Unknown. Much later, Francis Bacon wrote a treatise about a utopian New World entitled 'The New Atlantis,' within which he suggested the establishment of a new 'House of Solomon' for the advancement of learning. This House of Solomon actually grew out of the Masonic lodge in London into what is now the Royal Society. Furthermore, as lord high treasurer for the king of England, he funded the Virginia colony in America and, with the help of his Masonic friends, created a system of government guided by geometry and balance, now the United States. This is nothing less than Bacon's New Atlantis - guided by the House of Solomon on the far side of the twin Pillars of Hercules.

Now, I am convinced that this story of Hercules (along with many other Greek fables and parables) was intended to symbolize and teach the physics of resonance throughout Nature, exemplified in music and demonstrated in cymatic resonance patterns. I detail this in my book, but here is how I see it related to the physics of resonance and the symbolism of 11.

If you take a cross-section of the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar with a mountain on either side and water in the middle, you have the symbolism of resonance (in the dual mountains) and damping (in the water between). You will also h...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:43:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/The-Physics-of-Consciousness-378.html Im reading a great book right now that proposes the best theory Ive ever seen to explain what consciousness is and how it works exactly. The Physics of Consciousness by Evan Harris Walker makes a great case for consciousness as a property of electrons quantum tunneling through the brain. If you havent heard of quantum tunneling, this is where the electrons in atoms are all the time blipping out in one location and blipping back in at another location without ever crossing the spac I'm reading a great book right now that proposes the best theory I've ever seen to explain what consciousness is and how it works exactly.

The Physics of Consciousness by Evan Harris Walker makes a great case for consciousness as a property of electrons 'quantum tunneling' through the brain. If you haven't heard of quantum tunneling, this is where the electrons in atoms are all the time blipping out in one location and blipping back in at another location without ever crossing the space in between. You probably know it as a 'quantum leap.'

This means that the particles in every atom of your body are disappearing and reappearing all the time. This is not just a wild theory. Quantum tunneling has been verified many times experimentally and is a known fact, though not many people really understand that this is how reality actually works. Bits and pieces of us are literally disappearing and reappearing all the time, only at a speed much faster than we are able to perceive. The truth is we're just not all here.

So where do these particles of us go? The Schwartzschild quantum lattice theory suggests that they go through tiny 'black holes' perforating space, passing through into some other dimension and then returning, something like a sewing machine. According to Walker, our consciousness is a result of this quantum stitching process, emerging as quantum interactions in the 'cleft' of neural synapses that 'collapse the wavefunction vector' many times a second to create self-awareness. Consciousness and 'will' are then defin...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:40:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/Ultra-deep-field-376.html Here are the latest up close and personal views of our universe. Definitely worth the time to look at. Hubble Deep Field ZoomHubble Ultra Deep Field in 3DI first saw this image right after it came out a few years ago and even used it as my desktop background for a while. During this time, I had to do a big strategy presentation to all the senior management at the $1.5B corporat Here are the latest up close and personal views of our universe. Definitely worth the time to look at.

Hubble Deep Field Zoom

Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

I first saw this image right after it came out a few years ago and even used it as my desktop background for a while.

During this time, I had to do a big strategy presentation to all the senior management at the $1.5B corporate giant that had just acquired my tiny Internet firm. As usual, my computer was connected to a large projection screen, inadvertently displaying this beautiful image for a...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:10:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/Push-or-Pull-371.html One of the most important questions anyone could ever ponder is: What is gravity?Most people agree that gravity is the force that pulls us to the Earth and holds planets in their orbits. First proposed by Isaac Newton in the 17th century, many scientists believe that a sub-atomic particle called a graviton is what causes heavenly bodies to pull objects toward them. While such a

One of the most important questions anyone could ever ponder is: 'What is gravity?'

Most people agree that gravity is the force that pulls us to the Earth and holds planets in their orbits. First proposed by Isaac Newton in the 17th century, many scientists believe that a sub-atomic particle called a graviton is what causes heavenly bodies to pull objects toward them. While such a gravity particle has never been found, most of us still assume that something like this is what keeps our feet on the ground.

But what if this assumption is completely wrong? What if there is no invisible pulling force but instead the geometry of space pushing things together?

General relativity theory defines the vacuum of space as a structured field with matter warping or displacing it like a basketball displaces water. First proposed by Einstein almost one hundred years ago, gravity is described as space pushing matter together rather than imaginary gravitons attracting. Under this definition, when two bodies are close to one another, space pushes on each equally and in all directions while casting a 'gravity shadow' on one another. The mutual gravity shadows between the two objects then create a lower pressure than the surrounding space, pushing them together. And since the push of space is proportional to the mass displacing it, small objects like people are also pushed toward larger objects like Earth ...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:44:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/Turtles-all-the-way-down-359.html The popular phrase Turtles all the way down refers to the infinite regression theory of the cosmos, otherwise known as the fractal universe. It is a modern retelling of the ancient fable that the world is borne on the back of one or more enormous animals, such as the turtle in Native American creation myth. It begs the question, Upon what is the turtle standing on?Of course, first cause cannot be answered simply by declaring its turtles all the way down. In fact, it cant be answered by an infinite number of anything. This is because infinity The popular phrase 'Turtles all the way down' refers to the infinite regression theory of the cosmos, otherwise known as 'the fractal universe.' It is a modern retelling of the ancient fable that the world is borne on the back of one or more enormous animals, such as the turtle in Native American creation myth. It begs the question, 'Upon what is the turtle standing on?'

Of course, first cause cannot be answered simply by declaring it's 'turtles all the way down.' In fact, it can't be answered by an infinite number of anything. This is because infinity is by definition nothingness and non-physical. The last turtle isn't standing on anything at all - it's standing on an idea.

Consider for a minute the following comparison between the shell pattern of a tortoise and the patterns created by vibrating sand at specific frequencies on an oval plate. Clearly, there is a match between the shell pattern and the cymatic patterns, overlapping as harmonic standing waves inside the shell. In effect, the tortoise is 'standing on' electromagnetic waves resonating as cymatic patterns through every cell in his body. But given this, what can we say the waves themselves are 'standing on?'

Well, when we get down to the last turtle and turn him over we find that he is standing on nothing but empty space. That is, harmonics are 'standing' on the space that lies in between the waves. We see this in the above cymatic pattern where the sand comes to rest in the calm negative space between the resonating harmonic waves. This dead space is c...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:20:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/Slaying-the-Dragon-352.html How many times have we heard the story of brave knights riding off to slay the fire-breathing dragon? How many mythological gods have had to battle the hydra, slay the python or behead the serpent-headed gorgon? And how many movies have depicted the same dragon slaying theme with slithering monsters or fanged aliens from another planet? Even in the Bible, Adam and Eve were tempted by a devil-serpent, persuading them (and us) toward some evil knowledge with its cunning forked tongue.So why all these serpents and dragons in ancient mythology, religion a How many times have we heard the story of brave knights riding off to slay the fire-breathing dragon? How many mythological gods have had to battle the hydra, slay the python or behead the serpent-headed gorgon? And how many movies have depicted the same dragon slaying theme with slithering monsters or fanged aliens from another planet? Even in the Bible, Adam and Eve were tempted by a devil-serpent, persuading them (and us) toward some evil knowledge with its cunning forked tongue.

So why all these serpents and dragons in ancient mythology, religion and today's pop-culture?

Most are not aware that nearly all pre-Christian religions involved some kind of serpent worship. It is found in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology as the divine Naga (meaning 'serpent' in Sanskrit). They are found in Chaldean serpent worship, the Egyptian god Sebek (a 'musuh' or crocodile messiah) and the Lung Dragons of China. Even in South America we find the Mayan serpent kings of Caramaya, Naga Maya (and later Kukulcan and Quetzalcoatal), as well as the Amarus and Con Ticci Viracocha of Peru.

Descended from the Sumerian serpent god Ningizzida (symbolized in the caduceus symbol of modern medicine), it was the Egyptian serpent-worshipping Naga who built the great pyramids and later taught Pythagoras that all life emerges from spirals into waves like a serpent. Even the name 'Pythagoras' has its origin in the Greek words 'Python' and 'agoras,' together translating into the phrase 'serpent meeting.' The cult of Pythagoras, as the grand unifying archetype for all ancient Naga philosophies, was founded on the knowledge of Fibonacci spirals and harmonic waves in nature.

Indeed, it was this knowledge of how nature organizes itself that was at the bottom of nearly all pagan theologies. It was the balance between spiraling and circular geometries in nature that was best symbolized for tribal societies in the serpent. While most people shiver at the thought of a snake, it was this primal reptilian form that once inspired the belief that God was in Nature and inside ourselves (along our wave-like spine). It gave rise to the study of nature, leading us to the discovery of musical harmonies, geometry in nu...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:03:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/The-Love-of-Venus-331.html Ever wonder why people put a 5-pointed star on top of their Christmas tree or why we celebrate three wise men from the east who followed the Star of Bethlehem? The answer lies in the importance of the planet Venus to pre-Christian theosophies in proving the existence of a cosmic harmony and intelligence in Nature.It is an astronomical fact that Venus traces a near perfect pentagram in the Earths sky every eight years. As a planetary harmony, Venus rotates slowly in the opposite direction to the Earth (and most other planets) with its day two-thirds of an Earth year - the same 3:2 proportion of a musical perfect 5th. Thus, as eight Ever wonder why people put a 5-pointed star on top of their Christmas tree or why we celebrate three wise men from the east who followed the Star of Bethlehem? The answer lies in the importance of the planet Venus to pre-Christian theosophies in proving the existence of a cosmic harmony and intelligence in Nature.

It is an astronomical fact that Venus traces a near perfect pentagram in the Earth's sky every eight years. As a planetary harmony, Venus rotates slowly in the opposite direction to the Earth (and most other planets) with its day two-thirds of an Earth year - the same 3:2 proportion of a musical perfect 5th. Thus, as eight Earth years equal thirteen Venus years, Venus always faces Earth in the same position five times to trace a near perfect pentagram in space. The orbital ratio 13:8, equal to the Fibonacci number 1.625, is again close to the golden ratio of 1.618033... and accounts for the pentagonal 'star' geometry and its importance in the ancient mystery schools.

This fact was well known since the Sumerians and was associated with a string of beautiful goddesses, including Greek Aphrodite and Roman Venus. Venus, as the morning star in the east anthropomorphized into a female god, was symbolized by its pentagonal orbital geometry and named the Star of Bethlehem. The wise men didn't actually follow a star to find Jesus - they were followers of the Star of Bethlehem or Venus, probably neo-Pythagoreans, Brahmans and/or Hebrew Rabbi who were adepts in the ancient harmonic knowledge of astronomy and 'music of the spheres.' They were seeking a new prophet to replace Moses' (Egyptian Ra-Moses or Rameses) old Age of Aires and herald in the new Age of Pisces. Remember Christ was the fisherman.

To these people Venus represented love and order. The pentagram it forms with Earth proved that the spheres in the solar system moved in harmony with one another. As the two spheres orbit, every intersection of the Earth-Venus pentagram creates a golden ratio in space. Known as the divine proportion, the golden ratio actually acts as a damping action to contain and stabilize resonant vibration of all kinds from atomic structure to a guitar string to our solar system and beyond. In a unive...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:53:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/Sacred-geometry-and-cymatics-327.html One big keystone moment for me was when I realized that cymatic resonance patterns are directly related to the geometric figures descended from Hebrew gnosticism and the Egyptian mystery school (commonly known as sacred geometry). If you are not familiar with cymatics, this refers to the study of resonance patterns on plates sprinkled with powder.The following image shows a comparison of the cymatic pattern produced by the first and fifth harmonic partials (a musical major third / minor sixth) with the geometrical figure known as Metatrons cube (Hebrew Star of David). When the two are overlaid, it is easy to see the corres One big 'keystone moment' for me was when I realized that cymatic resonance patterns are directly related to the geometric figures descended from Hebrew gnosticism and the Egyptian mystery school (commonly known as 'sacred geometry'). If you are not familiar with cymatics, this refers to the study of resonance patterns on plates sprinkled with powder.

The following image shows a comparison of the cymatic pattern produced by the first and fifth harmonic partials (a musical major third / minor sixth) with the geometrical figure known as Metatron's cube (Hebrew Star of David). When the two are overlaid, it is easy to see the correspondence between the physical and mathematical representations.

Such vibratory pattern are naturally recursive or fractal, coherently nesting the same figu...

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Read more blog entries by: 'Richard Merrick' at: http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/ ]]> http://www.tokenrock.com//blogs/blog-Interference-Theory-109.html Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:57:00 GMT http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/Outside-or-Inside-325.html I would like to propose the following for discussion:There has been a long history of disagreement concerning the location of god. Some would claim god is a distinct personality that lives in a separate place called heaven while others would claim god is in nature and inside ourselves. The way I see it, this is a crucial point that determines a persons entire world view and any sense of spirituality.For instance, if one believes god is apart from nature, then the cosmos and all life with it becomes secular and non-sacred. However, if one believes god is inside nature and thus inside ourself, then by definition ALL t
There has been a long history of disagreement concerning the location of god. Some would claim god is a distinct personality that lives in a separate place called 'heaven' while others would claim god is in nature and inside ourselves. The way I see it, this is a crucial point that determines a person's entire world view and any sense of spirituality.

For instance, if one believes god is apart from nature, then the cosmos and all life with it becomes secular and non-sacred. However, if one believes god is inside nature and thus inside ourself, then by definition ALL things must be considered sacred. In this view, spirituality becomes present and immediate in all things. Rocks, bugs and most especially people become very important and special. AS a result, one would tend to feel a greater sense of responsibility for themselves and others.

Of course, many would argue that god is either nowhere at all or perhaps both inside AND outside. The outside-inside argument makes perfect sense, since all things could be seen as an unfolding from a single intent or dream into Max Planck's quantum matrix (his 'mind of god' idea). But where (or whether) god exists is not the point I am proposing for discussion here.

My point is that where we agree to locate god is a primary determinant of how both individuals and entire societies behave.

I suggest that those who see god as outside themselves will tend to devalue life while those who see god as inside ...

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