Visions of Urbana: It Is Accomplishing Itself As We Tweet

The whole world of #'s works like chicken wire supporting our massive papier maché reality.  This matrix is just under the surface of the physical reality that surrounds us, and tends to reveal itself when our physical reality breaks down, either due to trauma or extreme stress typical of initiation.

For example, from 2002-2004, I began to notice that every time I casually looked at the time display in my alarm clock or microwave, I never seemed to miss a 9:11.  It never seemed to be 9:10, or 9:12, always 9:11.  The connection started slowly, but it soon became impossible to ignore.  I dismissed this as merely coincidence for awhile, but it continued with such regularity that it became something that I eventually felt I had to ask some close friends about.  "Hey, didja ever notice how often you catch 9:11 on the clock?"  Most said no, politely.  But surprisingly, after a few weeks, a couple of friends told me that even though they tried to dismiss it after a few times, the 9:11 Enigma started happening to them as well.  And it wasn't stopping.

Personally, I was already conditioned for this, as I had learned of the 23 Enigma from reading Robert Anton Wilson in college, and became astute at spotting them in just about any environment.  There is a certain madness associated with the 23 Enigma, as the playing filed is much greater than a clock.  The playing field for the 23 Enigma is the field of all reality, and when it starts to work its magick, it can really make you question your sanity.  It was only many years later for me to correctly question where my sanity was to begin with.

It's a very strange obsession to keep, and something that is difficult to explain to someone.  As I have said, I think these number enigmas are something that are usually revealed only to those in pain or under considerable stress.  I must have felt this on some deeper level because I never explicitly tried to turn anyone on to the 23 enigma because I was hesitant to confront the pain that I was in.

But the 9:11 enigma was in the public domain.  It wasn't related strictly to a personal pain or stress, it was a national pain and stress.  And with the war that followed, it became a global pain and stress.  The 9:11 Enigma didn't possess the abstract randomness of the number 23.  Everyone understood where it came from and why it was important.

Obviously, the 9:11 enigma evolved directly out of the tragedy of September 11, 2001, a day where trauma and stress bonded the majority of Americans to a singular moment and a singular reality, or as close to a singularity since the nation tuned in to find out "WHO SHOT J.R." (did it really just take me this long to connect the name of that show, "Dallas", with the implications of that question?)  Over the years, this # and this enigma has grown beyond the confines of just my alarm clock, and can now be found expressing itself in many varied forms.  My 9:11 Enigma wasn't "mine".  9's, 11's and associated imagery began popping up in countless  films, TV shows, and albums that predate the actual day of the tragedy, and taken as a whole seemed to offer themselves to a narrative of conspiracy and prophecy.

I have read many of the intelligent theories and many of the crazed conspiracies that suggest that some of these 9/11's from the past were indeed veiled expressions of awareness, privileged knowledge, or even psychic perception.  A sort of # as Defense Early Warning Radar System.  The best of these theories and speculations are mesmerizing, and at times make me feel as though they are indeed lifting a veil of ignorance from my eyes and increasing my general perception of the world around me.  But, is it a new Poetry or a new Pollution?

There is a new # that is making friends with the Nao (the Now), and it seems to be popping up everywhere.  There are speculations as to what this number might be foreshadowing, and how we might interpret its nature once we are beyond the singularity of the suggested event horizon.

This number is 42, and seems to find its most famous expression in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the films of Stanley Kubrick.  But look closely and you'll see that it's starting to pop up everywhere, and is embedded in countless mediums and expressions.

The above image is the glyph for Jupiter, a popularized representation of the number 42.  When most people speak of the 42 Enigma today, they are speaking with an understanding of this glyph and its associations, especially as a sigil-ized arrangement of a 1, a 2, and a 4.

I connect 42 with another Celebrity number lurking about:  2012.  This of course refers to December 21, 2012, which represents both the end of the Mayan calendar and the culmination of Terrence McKenna's Time-Wave Zero.  It has been interpreted as start of a possible Apocalypse or the date of a history defining paradigm shift.  Or maybe it will be just another day.  No one really knows for sure.

December 21, 2012 can also be written as 12-21-12.  All 1's and 2's.  What is apparent about both 42 and 12-21-12 is that we have 1's, 2's, and 4's, but no 3's.  Why is 3 seemingly being left out of the fun?

For thousands of years 3 has been the quintessential magick #.  We live in 3 dimensions,  history is comprised of the past, present, and the future.  We eat 3 meals a day, once in the morning, afternoon, and the evening.  There are 3 Jewels of Buddhism and 3 turnings of the Wheel.  Christian theology has The Holy Trinity, and Jesus was resurrected in 3 days.  The world seems to be comprised of Three major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  The Three's go on and on and on...

The above image is that of pi, maybe the most important and practical mathematical constant ever discovered.  It is known as an irrational #, and has been calculated to an absurd detail.  The first number in pi is 3, and for convenience, let's say that the value is 3.141592….

Note that if we round up to the thousandth place, pi is equal to 3.142.  Hello 1, 2, and 4.

We see here that 3 stands alone, separated from 1, 2, and 4.  I think that if we can make a small leap of faith, and we entertain the  # as Defense Early Warning Radar System, maybe we can speculate a bit as to where this is all going.

42 and Beyond The Infinite

When pi is calculated, it extends further and further into the smallest of the smallest details.  The Deep End of the mental swimming pool.  As fascinating as this minute detail becomes, it is unnecessary from a practical perspective, and ultimately isn't getting us closer to any practical truth.  In fact, it is only just taking us further and further away from the lonely old 3, and we risk losing ourselves completely in a matrix of chicken wire, out of touch with the surface of reality.

So what does it mean to go "Beyond The Infinite"?  Must we continue to plunge deeper and deeper into the abyss of #?  Or has Pi taught us that returns on infinite calculations have little to no practical value.  Maybe the extent of Pi's practicality, and the best representation of Matrix and Matter is 3.142, and not

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Icarus taught us we shouldn't fly too high, maybe pi and Jupiter are teaching us we shouldn't dive so deep.

(Don't ever take for granted just how deep 3.142 already is.)

Eschatonics

Terrence McKenna speaks very eloquently of massive events that not only shape the texture of the future, but they also shape the texture of the past.  September 11th, 2001 was just such an event, so massive, and so ubiquitous that the moment our future changed, many elements embedded in our past also changed, and were redefined instantly.  All of the related numbers and related imagery that once projected an unrelated truth absorbed the shockwave of the event and became entangled with both the moment and the emotional fallout.

42 seems to be establishing a solid foundation and positioning itself as this kind of numeric catcher in the rye.  It is ready to imprint and translate meaning.  42 is a kind of dark star waiting to happen.

"Shall we go, ewe and eye while we can?"

Not Nao Neo, Not Nao.