Numerology
and Chaos Theory
vs Determinism
Keywords: astrology, creation
myth, relativity, infinity, system, einstein, numbers, spiritual,
prophecy,
predictions, god, faith, heisenberg, Uncertainty Principle
During
2001 I studied a few topics I had never covered before: Numerology, Chaos
Theory vs. Determinism and the I Ching.
Numerology is a spiritual discipline with its roots in both the Jewish Kabala and Eastern mysticism. The theory behind Numerology is that your name is a blueprint of your personality. Reduce your birth name to numbers and you'll discover your personal destiny. Numerology goes hand in hand with Astrology, which gives you a blueprint of your destiny based on your birth date and time. I like to think of the names and birth dates of people as their spiritual bar code. What numerology taught me about myself is the following: If my parents had not given me the name, "Jacco", if they had just changed or omitted one letter in my name, I would have been a totally different person. In May 2001 I started analysing all numbers in my life, bank account numbers, car registration numbers, IDs, birth dates, telephone numbers and many more. I came to the astonishing realisation that every number in my life reduced numerologically to one of the following numbers: 6, 9 and 11. For months at end I continued holding my breath each time I analysed a new number I discovered that related to me personally, only to find yet another number that reduced to 6, 9 or 11.
1991 + 11 = 2002
1993 + 9 = 2002
1996 + 6 = 2002
In 1991 I became ill, in 1993 I became ill again and in 1996 I wrote for the first time that I am the Second Christ. These were the major turning points in my spiritual development. At the end of 2002 I wrote this article and started this web site.
11 + 9 + 6 = 26
2 + 6 = 8
There are 7 days in the Creation Myth. There are 7 notes in the diatonic
scale (doh, re, mi, fah, soh, la, ti). On the 8th day/note one returns
again to the beginning of the week/scale: ("That will bring us back
to doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Doe a deer a female deer..." from The Sound
of Music). Some people call the New Age the 8th day of Creation. An
on
its side represents infinity
.
Chaos Theory and Determinism I have found to be two of the most intriguing of all scientific concepts. They seem to mutually exclude each other, i.e. either of the two is a truer view of reality. One of the last great supporters of Determinism was Albert Einstein, who discovered the Relativity Theory and coined the following equation:
It is very interesting to me that the first occasion at which Einstein's Relativity Theory was proven in practice was during a total solar eclipse on 29 May 1919, when it was proven that light emitted by the sun, traveling near the Moon is deviated (bent) by the Moon's gravitational field. Read about the spiritual significance of solar eclipses.
Chaos Theory holds that for a single condition there is more than one consequence. Some people hold that Determinism functions only in a closed system, but not in everyday life. A closed system, however, is only a theoretical concept, which makes such a statement nonsensical. Let us take the example of gravity: it is impossible to isolate a specific gravitational system. For example: no matter how far one could theoretically remove the earth and the moon from the sun, there would always be a minute gravitational influence from the rest of the universe on the gravitational field of the earth-moon system, which would make absolutely, totally accurate predictions about the gravitational field of the earth and moon impossible. This complexity in analysing any system and other theories seem to disprove Determinism as a possibility. On a microscopic level Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle states that the position and momentum of a particle cannot be determined simultaneously: light is used in the process of measuring the position and momentum of a particle. This however influences the energy of that particle, which renders it impossible to determine both these aspects. Quantum Theory also holds that on a microscopic level, things become indeterminable.
In my humble opinion: the fact that systems are too complex to make accurate predictions about future outcomes does not disprove Determinism, it only proves the impossibility of making accurate scientific predictions of future events.
Determinism holds that for a single situation there is only one possible consequence or outcome. All events are locked in a matrix of cause and effect resulting in total predictability in any system.
The Western school of science has however its limitations because of its preoccupation with discarding any thought until it can be proven scientifically, which I believe is the reason why there is still a very strong anti-spiritual current in the scientific world, due to the fact that spirituality is subjective and often seemingly illogical. Nobody can prove that God exists, it is something that one can ultimately only believe. Faith, I was taught, is a firm trust in something that is intangible.
Let me now quantify the theological implications of Chaos Theory and Determinism:
Chaos Theory:
- God cannot know the future.
- Supports our basic experience as human beings of responsibility.
- In the act of creation, freedom is given to the whole cosmos.
- God does not will the act of a murderer or the incidence of cancer.
- God’s intervention in the world becomes debatable.
- God's action will always be hidden.
- Limits sensible prayer.
- Prophecy is no longer a coherent possibility.
Determinism:
- The world is like a motion-picture film: the picture or still which is just being projected is the present. Those parts of the film, which have already been shown, constitute the past. And those, which have not yet been shown, constitute the future.
- Total predictability - the system is predictable by a superior intelligence.
- Metaphysical determinism implies predestination.
- God knows the future.
- Creation is not free to do what it wants.
- God is responsible for the acts of a murderer and for cancer.
- God is responsible for everything.
- Prophecies are a possibility.
The logical question that I would like to put to the reader is the following: if prophecy is a realistic part of the human experience, does it not then prove Determinism as a coherent possibility?
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