From: adventmagic@gmail.com   
      
   Magical thinking, the belief that one's ideas, thoughts, actions,    
   words, or use of symbols can influence the course of events in    
   the material world. Magical thinking presumes a causal link    
   between one's inner, personal experience and the external    
   physical world. Also a symptom of schizophrenia and OCD.   
      
   I am currently boycotting social media in an attempt to bring   
   about peace and non violence. However this may seem to   
   some to be a symptom of my mental illness. I have been   
   reviewing previous posts I've wrote concerning science   
   research at Wright Patterson AFB. Noting certain censorship   
   with Google Groups. I couldn't resist posting this again in   
   a way that would go into the archive...   
      
   Corey White wrote:   
      
   Imagine two space ships, in a universe empty of everything else.   
   The two ships were flying away from each other, and you had to   
   determine which ship was flying faster.   
      
   Lets say the first rocket ship's computer said it was flying at   
   4,000 MPH. And the second rocket ship's computer sad that   
   it was flying at 10,000 MPH.   
      
   Would there be any reason to believe this was true just because   
   the computer said so? It would be just as logical to say the first   
   ship was flying at 14,000 MPH and the other was stationary.   
      
   That's why we use light as a constant, to judge the motion of   
   other things.   
      
   However, where did light come from and will it always be here?   
   Without light everything is subjective.   
      
   Science is built on the assumption that fate or god is responsible   
   for everything. But science is not 100% reliable. If an alarm clock   
   is set for 7:00 AM, it won't wake you up if it brakes or is turned   
   off again.   
      
   Einstein created what scientists call the photoelectric effect. The   
   photoelectric effect turns light into electricity, and changes the   
   way we think about everything.   
      
   If a laser is shot in a straight line at a photo-detector connected to   
   a switch, something else happens.   
      
   The laser shoots so accurately and so fast, that we can say exactly   
   when it will trigger the photodetector, and be right 100% of the   
   time.   
      
   This is a 4th dimensional breakthrough, and could lead to new   
   technology. I even think the mechanism behind the double slit   
   experiment has something to do with this line of research.   
      
   There is a branch of science that overlaps with magick called   
   chaos theory. It proposes that actual randomness can exist in   
   nature.   
      
   If you believe that an outcome will occur in a chaotic system   
   there is the possibility it will effect that system. If your belief   
   can't effect that system then there will be no influence at all.   
   But because there is a possibility that you effect that system,   
   it will always remain a factor that works into the odds.   
      
   Some scientists study randomness in an attempt to find patterns   
   and relationships with consciousness. There are many patterns in   
   nature that show this to us. The golden ratio, and the spiral can   
   be found everywhere for example.   
      
   If you take Pi and multiply it by 2 miles, it rounds down to   
   10 Kilometers. And if you take the speed of light and round it   
   to the nearest place it is 180,000 miles per second. 180 is also   
   half the circumference of a circle and also the sum of all the   
   angles in a triangle.   
      
   Scientists believe that for consciousness to operate it must   
   use life as it's vehicle. Life of course only exists with the right   
   balance of sunlight and chemistry. The first kind of life as   
   we know it used light photosynthesis for its energy.   
      
   Trees, for example, grow towards light during the day, and at   
   night they rest just like we do. Maybe the reason we dream at   
   night is because of our evolution from plant life.   
      
   Many early cultures worshiped the sun. What if however, the   
   Sun was just a vortex sucking consciousness from the dream   
   time? What if dreams were real?   
      
   We can see that the mechanism for evolution exists in all life.   
   However this does not mean the newest forms of life are more   
   evolved. Trees for example existed long before dinasuars, and   
   are still evolving today. Perhaps they have discovered something   
   that we have not!   
      
   The solar system is divided into the 12 signs of the zodiac:   
      
   01. ♈ Aries   
   02. ♉ Taurus   
   03. ♊ Gemini   
   04. ♋ Cancer   
   05. ♌ Leo   
   06. â™   
    Virgo   
   07. ♎ Libra   
   08. â™� Scorpio   
   09. â™� Sagittarius   
   10. ♑ Capricorn   
   11. â™’ Aquarius   
   12. ♓ Pisces   
      
   There are 10 known bodies in the solar system,   
   Aside from earth:   
      
   01. ☼ Sun   
   02. ☽ Moon   
   03. ☿ Mercury   
   04. ♀ Venus   
   05. ♂ Mars   
   06. ♃ Jupiter   
   07. ♄ Saturn   
   08. â™… Uranus   
   09. ♆ Neptune   
   10. ♇ Pluto   
      
   Add the two together and you get 22.   
      
   There are 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot   
   There are 22 Letters in Hebrew   
   There are 22 Paths on the Tree of Life   
      
   And then there is the Catch-22:   
      
   "By requesting a mental evaluation, and hoping   
   to be found not sane enough to stand trial, you   
   show your own sanity by creating the request.   
   So cannot be declared insane."   
      
   By adding one more planet, ⊕ Earth   
   You arrive at the number 23, which is the number   
   of mans rise into heaven above the angels.   
      
   2 divided by 3 equals 0.666   
      
   One day man will discover a physical heaven:   
      
   01. ☼ Sun   
   02. ☽ Moon   
   03. ☿ Mercury   
   04. ♀ Venus   
   05. ⊕ Earth   
   06. ♂ Mars   
   07. ♃ Jupiter   
   08. ♄ Saturn   
   09. â™… Uranus   
   10. ♆ Neptune   
   11. ♇ Pluto   
   12. ✡ï¸� Heaven   
      
   Which gives us 12 planets and 12 constellations.   
      
   12 x 12 = 144, the number of the rapture.   
      
   Revelation 13:18 states that if one is wise and has an understanding   
   to count the number of the beast, which is also the number of a man,   
   the number comes to 666.   
      
   Here is what is known as a magic square:   
      
   35 01 06 26 19 24   
   03 32 07 21 23 25   
   31 09 02 22 27 20   
   08 28 33 17 10 15   
   30 05 34 12 14 16   
   04 36 29 13 18 11   
      
   Rows Total = 111   
   Matrix Sum = 666   
      
   There are free programs online that can generate any kind of   
   magic square. Perhaps this is a way to turn a computer into a   
   kind of magic.   
      
   Where science overlaps with magic the most is in the emerging   
   field of quantum mechanics.   
      
   There are two types of analog clocks. The first stops on every   
   second, and the other is always moving. What's interesting about   
   that is that our actual experience of time is a mixture of   
   both.   
      
   There is a thought experiment called Schrödinger's cat.   
   To explain let us decide on our frame of reference. We will use   
   24 hours. For the experiment we will observe a cat for one day,   
   and then put it in a box with a poison dish of milk. We close the   
   box and leave the cat in it for another 24 hours, and then take   
   the cat out again on the third day.   
      
      
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