02/01/04 comes across as 214 to me.  This is the span from 12 on the left to 14 on the right.  12 x 13 x 14 = 2184 = 888 (16).  It is curious that this would come up two days in a row.  This is also 2:38 (88) = The High Priestess: Vision.  238 is also 23 8 = WH, my initials.  I'm still flying high.  The mania has been pronounced for several weeks now.  However, it is a controlled high.  I feel calm and excited at the same time.  Further, I have more energy and am able to focus better than I have in some time.  This all suggests that I'm still operating within acceptable constraints.  Though, at times, it seems I am approaching the borders and warning levels.  That I know this and can be aware of these states is a good sign.  I am confident that I can handle whatever spirit brings forth for me to experience.

My connection with the consensus world is very limited.  I really do not pay attention to or know what is going on in the world at all.  I watch a several drama shows on television during the week and movies on weekends ... but I avoid news, news shows, newspapers, and magazines completely.  Further, I have no interest in sports, comedy, or talk shows.  In addition, I don't read much anymore, except for my own writings.  This gives me a lot of time to focus on the things that I love ... in particular, metaphysics.  I think deeply on a number of things:  society, education, economy, government, reality, reality creation, nature of consciousness, expression of spirit in flesh, numerology, spiritual meaning embedded in symbol systems, Aquarian Age, astrology, vibrations, information structures, connections, purpose and meaning of existence, spiritual themes being expressed in mass media (via television and popular songs), etc ...

Why do I do this?  For the sheer joy and pleasure of it.  This is what I love to do.  Further, it is what I am moved to do.  That is enough for me.  Clearly, most of these are not topics that most people, or even a significant portion of people are concerned about.  It is our philosophers and deep thinkers that choose to penetrate these areas.   And, even for this august group, many of these topics are taboo ... not considered appropriate for intellectual discourse.  Yet, somehow, they have all become important in my life, primarily over the past 28 years, most specifically since 1993.  They all matter to me now in very important ways.

One of those popular songs with spiritual themes "I Hope You Dance", just played on the radio.  I enjoy listening to it, and know the words as it is being played ... but even now, minutes later, I don't remember the them.  It seems there was something about "give Heaven more than a passing glance" and "give faith a chance".  These are obviously spiritual.  But, much of the rest of the song is as well.  My sense is that the masses are being prepared for an awakening.  Most of this preparation is subconscious.  The conscious does not see, or perhaps sees but does not agree, that it is being programmed for something.  That something being living life in a New World in a New Age.  What better way to do this programming than through the creative talents and artists involved in the mass entertainment industry.  This is programming that people freely choose to partake of on their own initiative.  Further, much of it, via radio and television is effectively free.  Then again ... having no direct cost charged does not make it free.  We, the people, pay for everything either directly or through costs passed on to other products and services that we consume.  As the saying goes, "there is no free lunch".

What qualifications do I have to think and to express as I do?  First there is training, BSEE from USC, MSEE from Stanford, and 28 years of personal study in metaphysics.  Second, there are innate abilities, revealed via Astrology, Numerology, Aura, and natural talents demonstrated in my life.  Third, there is personal experience of altered states of consciousness without the use of drugs.  I don't even consume alcohol ... I could never stand the taste and smell.  Fourth, there is a knowingness of the spiritual nature of beings and experience, and a need to find the moreness of life beyond the senses and even the mind.  Fifth, there is a special sense of purpose and destiny, that moves me to do this in this particular manner.  Finally, there is an awareness of Whom That I Am, and my connection to source, the ONE consciousness from which we all spring.  Clearly, these are sufficient or I would not be able to express as I do.

This has been a key approach in my spiritual growth ... observing what I am able to express and then attempting to come up with a framework for how reality and reality creation work that accounts for this expression/experience.  This forces me to constantly adjust my models of the world and the laws within it that allow it to manifest as it does.  Reality Creation 1010 talks alot about this.  In fact, today marks the 8th anniversary of its completion.  Wow, has it really been that long already?  It is still fresh to me.  Many people take what they experience for granted.  They just accept it for what it is.  They don't take the crucial step of finding out what it means, or questioning how is it possible that it happened at all.  Perhaps this is because they don't have beliefquake experiences that rock the very foundations of key parts of their belief systems.  My awakening experiences did this for me.  They shook the foundations so violently that I was forced to deal with the fallout and recreate a more workable belief system.  This did not happen overnight.  In fact, recory in both 1993 and 1998, took a few years.  In some ways, I am still integrating my experiences from 1998.  Yes, they were that powerful.  They dramatically transformed what I knew myself to be psychologically and spiritually.  I was literally the caterpiller emerging from the cocoon that constituted my work, and finding that I could open up my wings and fly ... in a totally new world.  It is hard now to go back and remember what it was like before my awareness changed.  It was as if I was going through the motions, but not really living.  I was doing what was expected ... versus what I was truly moved to do.  And, I was extremely bored much of the time.  Physical existence literally put me to sleep.  Though, I did find time to read and think alot ... primarily about metaphysics.  This is the one area I was naturally passionate about.

This passion has only grown stronger over the years.  This is truly my pre-occupation.  It is what consumes my time and attention.  Further, this is by conscious choice.  Though, it helps that I am strongly moved to do it as well.  In fact, I can think of nothing that I would rather be doing.  This expression allows my creativity to flow forth, resulting in formations of words that constitute ideas that express truths in a fresh and new way.  It is in creative expression, that spirit most strongly manifests in flesh.  The process of creation is full of wonder ... it is where we touch the unknown and bring it forth through our consciousness into physical manifestation; first as ideas, then as foundations and physical structures in our world.  Thought forms are entities with lifes of their own.  It is thought forms that create physical forms.  If we want to change society, that is the place to start, with more empowering thought forms.

The birth of America in 1776, came from a powerful set of thought forms defining concepts of a government that guaranteed certain freedoms and rights to its constituents.  We've been living under these concepts for nearly 226 years.  Communism brought forth a competing set of throught forms during the 20th century defining concepts of a government that provided a different contract with its constituents.  To date, no country has been able to set up the conditions that allowed this contract to be achieved.  The key tenet of this contract is an economic one ... from each in accord with their abilities, to each in accord with their needs.   I still believe this to be a superior concept on which to base an economy.  However, it demands that people be fair and responsible, and that they give more than they take.  It is this later directive, never take more than you give, that generates surplus in society.  If everyone takes, the supply is insufficient, resulting in lack and poverty.  The key is to realize that through cooperation, our collective giving generates abundance ... more than we could ever need.  Then, it is a matter of having a fair distribution system that gives people what they need.  Note that for this contract to work, the social infrastructure needs to facilitate getting people into positions where their abilities can be fully used in service to society.  To do this, we need to know what abilities people have, and what tasks require what abilities; so that we can match the human resources to the tasks and services they are most suited to provide.  Yes, this is social engineering.  But, why shouldn't we apply the techniques of engineering to the systems in society?  Free enterprise, after all, is much less free than most people would suppose.  Further, while it has done great things to the economies of developed countries ... it is not so clear that it has truly served the world at large.  Clearly, those in the United States, while equal with one another; are not equal with the brethren throughout the world.  We make more money, have a much higher standard of living, consume far more than our proportionate share of the worlds resources.  Don't get me wrong.  I'm very grateful to have been born here and to live here.  However, that doesn't keep me from dreaming of how this country and the world could be better ... actually how society as a whole could be better.

What seems to be missing is a social contract that spells out what society expects from each individual and in return what each individual can expect from society.  As far as I know, in the US, we get our freedom and equal opportunity, such as it is, in exchange for obeying the laws and paying taxes.  We have no real economic rights.  There is no guarantee of a job.  There is no part of society that helps to ensure our abilities are developed fully ... or that helps us to find a place in society in which we can apply these abilities in service in exchange for getting what we need.  Is that not what an economic system should do for us, rather that to disproportionately consolidate wealth in a small minority of owners?

This opens up the issue of how free are we really?  Most of us are locked into jobs that demand 40 hours per week of our time.  Actually, adding lunch and average commute times, this is probably closer to 50 hours per week.  Some people in lower income jobs are forced to work second jobs just to make ends meet.  Collectively we do this because somewhere it has been decided that this is the standard for employment in this country.  Is there some reason this should not be 32 hours, or even 48 hours for that matter?  Most of us have simply gotten used to it and accept it because that is simply the way it is.  Further, we are grateful for a labor movement that got it to this level.  We don't have to go back too far in history to get to times when working conditions were much worse, the workday was much longer, and the work week was 6 days rather than 5.  With the economy slowing, many people might be willing to trade additional time at work for additional pay, if it were available ... but typically this is not an option.  Further finding a different job to put in a small number of hours per week is highly unlikely.  Sure, there is the opportunity to generate goods or services and sell them on the free market.  However, for most, this opportunity seems more like a dream than a practical reality.  It is definitely not easy to do ... and the fact is that most small businesses fail.

There has to be a better way.  It should be easier to succeed, and experience the abundance that is rightfully ours.  That doesn't mean we don't have to do our parts and expend our efforts wholeheartedly to our work.  However, this should be work that we are suited to do ... not work that we take just because it happens to be available and we can find nothing else that is better.

The number 528 came up on my drive home on a license plate of a car that I followed for nearly half an hour.  This is one of the signature numbers for me.  It has been for many years.  Today, however, I made several new discoveries.  First, 528 = 6 x 88 = 6:00(88).  This is The Lovers card at the top of my "A" Tarot reading.  The sense is that I have finally realized this state.  We spoke in a musing last month about the 61 and 62 at the next to the top level.  Second, 528 is also 48 x 11.  This is the Man in Search of More and Masterhood.  Third, 528 is 16:The Tower x 33:The Master Teacher.  Perhaps this is the realization needed to allow the Beyond Imagination School Without Walls to take flight.  After all, you can't have a spiritual school without a Master Teacher, now can you?  Hmm, I just realized this is also 24 x 22:The Master Builder, and 12:The Hanged Man x 44.  24 is X, one of the completion patterns for W-Y.  The first was WAY, the next WHY, and the final WXY.  W x Y = 23 x 25 = 575 = Eye = The first three digits of my SSN.

999, 222222, and 666:The Beast were also significant sightings on my drive along with a host of other numbers that kept me occupied for most of the two hour drive.

528 is also 7:55 the reverse of the pattern for the number of letters in each part of my name.  Wayne Ellis Hartman Jr has a 5572 pattern.  This is 28 to 56.  The transition from 28 to 56 is a doubling or a replication.  28 is highly significant as literally the Man with the World in his Hand.  28 256 is highly significant as well, with both 28 and 256 = 16:The Tower x 16:The Tower.  This has come up several times in recent musings.

Related to this is the pattern for the initials in my name wehj = 5581.  We've seen before that the reverse of this 1855 was roughly the time of the Transcendentalists.  This is also 19 to 56.  One way to get there is by adding 37:King of Cups = Riding the Subconscious.  Another way to get there is to add 9:The Hermit + 19:The Sun = 28 and then replicate as for the previous pattern.  In many ways, this describes my process perfectly.  Hmm ... just noticed that 1900 in military time happens to be 7:00 pm, so we have the night version of 7 to 56.  Here, the obvious process seems to be to square (ground) the 7 to get 7 x 4 = 28 and then to replicate.  7 is The Chariot.  The charioteer steers the sphinxes pulling the chariot without reigns.  The sense is that I am the charioteer of my life now.  Actually, I have always been ... I just didn't know it. Also, the difference now is that this is a conscious realization and activity.

I AM THAT I AM THAT YOU ARE!   Be Happy and Create Well!

LOVE,

Wayne