Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Numerology

Whats with numbers? Subjects like astrology, numerology, palmistry etc. tend to evoke wonder and disdain in equal measure. For most part, people ignore them as something that may be useful but is essentially inaccurate. Far worse, some see it as means to exploit and fleece the mentally weak. All these views have some degree of truth to them.

As a science student, I do not rule out anything without trying it myself objectively. With this view, I started exploring various occult sciences from the age of 15. This was inspired by a chance meeting with an astrologer who described many things about me pretty precisely by just looking at my birth chart. I found the whole thing interesting as I saw it an excellent tool to understand myself and the people around me.

Astrology is pretty complicated, either by design or by accident. In essence, I could make out at least 144 distinct elements that can combine in different proportions to give different personality outcomes. I guess it simply reaffirms that every individual is unique. Nevertheless, there are some basic temperaments and approaches towards life, and some basic ways in which people of different temperament would react to others & the environment.

Interestingly, the occult science essentially means that you should be able to derive the same results no matter which route you take. It can be by reading the palm, numbers, vaastu or even the forehead. It all depends which omens you can read, but the omens will match. I don't think it is humanly possible for anybody to accurately predict the future due to so many uncontrolled variables involved. Perhaps a "Krish"(the movie) style super computer which can correlate each of the variables with supreme accuracy will one day show us the future. But for now, the various omens simply point towards a direction and can only help you to understand yourself and your environment in a better way. Beyond this, if anybody promises you anything, be skeptical.

In the same vein, I have studied Numerology and supplemented it with observation, intuition and correlating with other omens I can read. I do not claim to have all the answers, but I can give you some questions to think about and work with if you have an open mind.

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