"Intelligence is the ability to identify isolated but related facts and form them into ideas that explain the universe." A re-occurring thought.  I read it when I was 17 or thereabouts in a teen magazine.

Moebius Twist Mirroring is most evident in the right and left hand but it's everywhere.  The hands can be placed together, palm to palm but they cannot be laid on top, superimposed. The face cards in a deck of cards are the same 'twisted' image. To make a card where the image at top and bottom face the same direction it's necessary to make a transparency of either half and use the back side as the front for either the top or bottom. There's a book, The Molecule and It's Double by Jacque Jacques that caught my attention  when I noticed the image on the jacket looked so much like a basic square dance formation. I had learned to 'read' images by then, the 'moebius twist concept' had been brought to my attention, and also I had become somewhat comfortable with the process that directed my body, my thinking, my attention and all aspects of daily life that  related in some way to the process of instruction, itself, the form by which information was given. It happened over a span of years after 1984.

Content:           A drawing of the lattice theory of confinement of quarks

                        A few words about the 'importance of third person observations'.

                       A few words about the moebius band.

                       A few words about Carl G. Jung's Psychology of the Transference,

                  A string of events developed an idea.

String theory probably accounts for the way the 'moebius twist concept' emerged in my mind over a span of several years when seemingly isolated events united in my mind. It began when I read a book, The Double Helix by John Gribbon then put it aside. I can't remember what caused me to  riffle through the book one day and notice a paragraph I'd underlined. It was about how every cell lives a double life, developing along a double track. developing  as a member of a cellular state in a plant or animal but on another track as an individual.  I noticed another sentence in John Gribbons' book that I'd underlined: "With the discovery of the cell biology had found it's atom." Those ideas were new to me.

 I noticed that the words 'double track' brought a square dance movement to mind. "On your double track, 'track two'." It was an association my mind formed automatically.

Learning to do advanced and challenge level square dancing provided the events and living circumstances that brought these 'isolated but related' images and ideas to me. The 'stage' required a special situation: Two groups of dancers were trying to leave the mainstream level in the few years after 1980, before 1984 and the situations in my personal life folded into that 'stage'. By 1984 the stage was perfect when the Los Angeles Olympic Games advanced. The 'voice' began to emerge from the advertisements that urged the athletes to 'go for the gold'. I had not noticed the 'theme' of advertisements before when the Games were advancing or being played. The words that were intended to encourage the athletes seemed strangely turned towards me at times.  I had never experienced the words in any advertisement as a conversational tidbit aimed at me so that was peculiar enough to cause me to feel very, very strange for a few years. Then it became a constant feature of every day life after 1984.

 I did not at that point  know this kind of hearing is considered to be  symptoms of certain mental disorder: thought broadcasting and ideas of reference, and even psychosis. The word 'coincidence' did not occur to me. There were too many varieties of 'strange events' that related to changes in my thought that I believed were the results of a terrible blow on my head in an automobile accident.  

 By1989 I'd been working full time 4 years; my mind was teeming with new content that I wondered if I was 'thinking'. I had been empty headed but now I was thought full. At times what I was doing in my work created situations that did not seem possible because they were perfectly timed to interface with a book I was reading.  The Safety Secret was the first such event. But I noticed that my thinking  contained evidence that books I read that made no sense to me when I read them was producing 'new thought'. I also noticed that my mind seemed to produce words, just occasionally that made me curious about whether I was producing them.

  I remember that I heard my breathing for several months and I thought it sounded like HAL the computer in 2001 Space Odessey.

 I began to subscribe to a monthly science magazine at about that point in Time. I was reading books that ordinarily I wouldn't have chosen and I didn't have the sense that I selected them. It seemed my body was not mine, I was strangely detached from it, a kind of audience to myself.

A remark my sixth grade teacher had made to the class had come into my mind one day when I read the formula  e = mc2 in a book I was reading: He told us the rules of mathematics are fixed, that in any equation:  "What is on one side of the equals sign is the same as what is on the other side of the equals sign but the arrangement is different." I had forgotten that remark, it had not re-occurred into my mind until that incident but I remembered who had said them, the memory was completely retrieved.  While I looked at the formula and Jack Bullocks' words were retrieved another thought occurred to me: "I wonder if that means what it looks like it means." An answer to my thought occurred to into my mind then, bundled specific words that I would not have been able to articulate or understand.  I read those exact words later in a book, Atom, Matter and Physics by a Seattle physician, Alan Nourse. He wrote the words I'd thought: The 'matter' included the physical body, the floor I walk on. But also by that time there were books like Shirley MacClaines' linking the 'new age' to ideas about quantum physics. I wondered why other books I'd read about quantum physics (for the lay reader) had not mentioned that the human body is part of 'matter'. The article about the news on my birthday was about Arthur H. Compton's work with gamma rays had included human thought, motives and activities.

Another idea occurred to me then, I laughed at how it happened, my mind produced a 'joke', I didn't look for it. I saw that e = m c 2 in reverse reads : "'to see  me.'" I laughed when it occurred to me that e = mc2  equals 2 see me. It was a statement that made sense to m because I had read that Einstein had said: "Nonsense, God does not play dice." when the 'flaw' in his formula had been pointed out to him. So the 'joke' was that perhaps God did gamble, take risks. It was further 'funny' to me because my grandmother's married name was 'Risk'.

All of this happened automatically that  I saw the equation somewhat reversed because I was seeing  many things in reverse then. I was having a hard time going to familiar places because left looked like right at times. I found myself getting lost and having to work hard to do many things that had always been easy to do. My handedness had reversed, I could write backwards with my left hand. I'd had neurological tests done at Harborview in 1984 that showed me that, otherwise I would not have known. Everything looked different and everything sounded different but I didn't see how that could be related to reversal of handedness.

 I would not have had the tests done except that the wife of the square dance caller in The Dream told me several times during the evening that I had  turned left when the caller had said 'right hand turn'. Somehow that made me feel something was wrong so I had the tests done.

Another incident happened at a different time. I couldn't rest at night so I left my bed and picked up a magazine I'd already read. I browsed through it and paused to re-read an article, Strange Matter in the November 1989 Discover magazine, the magazine I'd subscribed to. It's name had changed from Science 1981..1982, etc. The article mentioned 'quarks as being responsible for the properties of all matter both ordinary and 'strange' matter'. I was attracted to that paragraph several times. "The 'up' quark carries a fractional electric charge of +2/3 and the down quark a charge of  -1/3 for a net charge of 1. There are three quarks in the proton, an assembly of 2 ups and one down for a net charge of -1/3.  The proton has 2 downs and one up  for  net charge of 0.  A thought that seems trivial to an expert  but which was a monumentally new idea to me, occurred to me.

"Everything in matter is binary: 0 or 1. " I had read a front page newspaper story of the news on my birthdate 1-2-1932 about the discovery of a 'flaw in material formula' that added human thought, motivations and activities to e = m c2.

                           and a drawing in his book that duplicates this 'moebius' twist.

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Figure   3.1 lattice of points helps physicists understand the field of force that gives rise to the permanent confinement of quarks. Quarks lie only at the vertexes of the lattice. The state of a particle is represented by a purple arrow, which must point in one of two directions a{ each vertex in the front lattice plane. To compare the orientations of two purple arrows one of them must be moved next to the other. A set of rules, represented by the bands that join neighboring vertexes, must be defined to specify the changes made in the orientation of the arrows during transport. The set of rules is a gauge field; it enables an

Arrow to be transported upward or to the right of a vertex, around a square array of four vertexes called a plaquette and back to its starting point. (Transported arrows are green, yellow, blue or pink.) Any set of bands that returns the transported arrow to its original orientation represents the lowest energy state of the gauge field. A set of bands that resembles a Moebius strip, however, cannot be un­twisted: a transported arrow returns to its starting vertex with the opposite orientation. The red arrows represent the lines of force to which the gauge field gives rise.

           THE FORMATIONS AND THE FOUNDATION OF  THE SQUARE DANCE SET ARE 'MOEBIUS TWIST MIRRORING''.

There are 8 people in a square dance set. These 8 people are coupled into a  binary unit, (2 people = 1 unit) which  means there are 4 binary units in a square  dance set.

The four couples are divided into two binary units, the 'odd numbers 1 and 3' working against the 'even numbers 2 and 4'' ( 4  people = 1  binary unit  also. )

There are several basic formations in the square dance set but each formation has the 'moebius twist mirroring' attribute. This is a fact because although each couple , one is a 'right hand' and the other is a 'left hand', and although this works as a binary unit in the set at one level, the two individuals move independently during the the dance. .Every individual is a member of a binary unit on two levels, because the 4 couples are divided into opposites, the 'odd numbers 1 and 3' working against the 'even numbers 2 and 4.

The 8 individuals have relationships with others during the dance that change with every step, and it is this ever changing relationship that makes it difficult to learn levels beyond mainstream, and that is not too easy either. 

Observations of the 'other'.

THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT JUDGING THE OTHER.    The 'other' may not really be what you are looking at, because in certain psychologically sensed situations, you may be looking at your self, through a kind of 'lens' created from within. What emerges as the 'other' can really be the other in non-psychologically sensed situations or the 'moebius twist mirroring' can be generating a situation where the individual can see a bit of information formed through the 'mirrored' content.

I have reason to believe it is important to guard one's 'third person' appraisals because: "We tend to become that which we observe." 

William Blake wrote in his Tree of Life allegory that the 'eternals who guard those who sleep, helplessly become that which they observed."  Observation is an ambiguous word. It's doubleness is not obvious until you think about it, but it is used to speak about what is seen as well as what is spoken. 

The psychological conception of 'projection' as it is commonly interpreted involves self observation turned around backwards.

I'm not certain exactly where I read that quotation but I've experienced a rather unexpected connection between what I think about as the 'other', the third person, he, her, it, they, them. Certain thoughts that I remember thinking about one man in particular in a specific situation had an effect on me, such that I really began to do myself, what I had thought this other person ought to do. It was a simple situation, this person thought he had a terrible voice which was a serious handicap in his chosen field: he was a square dance caller. I remember thinking to myself one evening: "He could be a good singer. He should work on his voice." There were other similar 'third person observations' that I remember thinking (????) to myself about this particular person and eventually I began to do all of them myself. "Judge not, lest ye be judged." may have been said in reference to this very powerful mechanism, in certain relationships.

 This strange condition is presented, or to be more accurate represented in a story form a psychological condition that is virtually impossible to describe to anyone that has not experienced the effects of it,  as well as the thing itself. It's mental mechanism 'projected' outwards into the physical world, in the well known myth in which Narcissus falls in love with his own image. He cannot recognize it is his own reflection he is talking to, and loving so much and while he relates to his own image, the unfortunate female, Echo repeats back the last works she hears him say to his reflection.  The 'insight' of Narcissus has turned around and is now 'outsight'.

 The term projection is usually defined superficially so I will define it more in depth, from experiences that made it obvious it's a term that must be used with great care. The 'thing observed' and the 'thing described' are both projections in that either one is being defined and named and both are an expression of a  belief. "The thing is what I believe it is..."

 The  moebius twist  can create a band that has only one surface but every point on the band is accessible. Supposedly it was discovered by Augustus Moebius one day when he put his belt on with a half turn and then he examined the result. I'm sure this has happened to billions of other individuals who gave no thought to the result of a strip of leather with a twist in it. I suspect an impulse caused Mr. Moebius to 'wonder' and inquire.

In 1940 I read this definition of a moebius band: "To make a moebius band take an evenly cut strip of paper and twist one end a half turn. Join the ends  with paste. The result is a moebius band. "

I looked at the result, wondering what the use of such a thing could be. I was 9 years old then. I read this definition of a moebius band when I was 9 years old. I read the definition when I was just browsing through a dictionary, which for some reason I liked to do. We had a library in our classroom which we could use freely whenever we'd finished our work.

As I looked at the circle with a 180 degree twist in it a thought came into my mind: "Cut it around it's center, lengthwise."

So I got scissors and cut it around the center, lengthwise. The surprising result was a circle still, twice as long and half as wide.

The thought repeated exactly: "Cut it around it's center, lengthwise."

So I repeated what I'd done. The result of this second 'slicing' was quite surprising. Two slender circles the same length as the first slicing had produced, but they were separated. Yet they were  permanently joined by a knot that I couldn't think of how to loosen.

I discovered the hidden secret of the moebius band as a result of the impulse that I experienced as an instruction, which I obeyed without hesitation. The same impulse repeated itself, and again there was no hesitation in my response to it.

This is THE impulse, it's embedded within an entire world of inner mechanisms that generate as well as restrict thought and a response to it.

That was my second incident in which an impulse that generated a thought caused me to obey instantly, and discover on my own something that I later learned about by reading or being taught or told by someone else what I'd learned privately. I became aware that a full twist, a 360 degree twist produces quite a different result when it's sliced around it's center.

There's more to come about the moebius band and it's form. I believe the 'point itself', can be an individual on this planet, being guided along a continuum that has many 'tracks', that is 'phases, states of mind, modes of perception, in the processes named by C. G. Jung as individuation and more in depth, where a kind of literalness as well as symbolism  requires to be understood, it was named by Emanuel Swedenborg as 'regeneration'.

I thought of it as the 7th sense, but  the way I think of it now is that the body, the physical world, mind/brain and personal experiences are all united into one sense, only one.

But as a moving point, the twist point itself, can be a human on Earth living a continuum shaped like a form of the moebius band. It seems to me this moving point of observation, definition and activity is linked to another dimension, and it's this dimension that is sending out the signal of Time.

This is an opinion I've come to understand from experience that really, literally described its self, among other of it's attributes. It created a conversation built from  huge batches of information that must have been energized in some way although it probably was born when I was born, in my body. The body as a source of information and an object that can be watched with the same detachment that is used to watch others as well as objects was something new to me.