This event happened in the the mid 1990's as best I can remember. It happened after I'd been working for Boeing for more than 10 years and was no longer at the location where the pi model is located.
One day after I picked up a packet of pictures, examined them briefly, noticing a flaw on one of the images of the pi symbol. Boeing used the pi symbol as a Pride In Excellence (PIE) logo until they outsourced their awards program. The 'flaw' seemed to be a twist of colored streaks on what seemed to be a segment of ribbon, 'white at the center.' I'd never seen anything like it, I believed at that time. The 'flaw' was interesting enough that I spent some time thinking about it, then went back to a book I'd been reading which was. The Re-enchantment Of The World by Morris Berman. I read page 31, turned to the next page and saw a drawing on the pages of an experiment that Isaac Newton had designed to test whether light was simple or complex. This is a copy of the page: Isaac Newton's experiment. The experiment resulted in 'white at the focal point'.
I remembered having just thought that the colored streaks, white at the center had seemed to be a segment of a ribbon. I took out my pictures again because those words formed a distinct relationship between the book I was reading and the pictures in my hand. The twist of colored streaks was 'white at the center' just like the results of the experiment. That seemed more than peculiar timing. Because I've had many similar experiences, I knew I could not be imagining this meant something. It was unexpected that it related to pi, but this kind of event marked by precise timing has been happening somewhat sporadically for several years with quite a variety of content. I knew that I was not creating these incidents and I definitely wasn't expecting them
The element of surprise is sometimes a real shock, but I'd had other events relating to pi in the past so this one made me think rather than feel the amazement I usually felt.
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The first event relating to pi had happened in 1989 and that one had nearly caused me to swoon, literally. It is very difficult to describe what happened but I named that event my pi mindquake because it was so shocking and utterly unexpected. The result of it rearranged the way I thought about my past because there was evidence in this 'quake' that from my earliest years, throughout my life, what I had thought and done especially when I was quite alone, had really been stored away somehow and could be retrieved, incident by incident to be displayed internally in a flash of time. In a 'swhoosh', I experienced a package of memories and then a display of numbers I was looking at happened, that exposed a pattern quite familiar to me. It was a pattern I'd slowly learned about, which I'd named the 'moebius twist'. My name, pimoebius had come into my thought one day, I'm not sure when that happened but this pi quake involved that pattern, a concept I'd learned about in square dancing when I'd found it necessary to learn to visualize myself and learn to dance with people who weren't physically present, phantoms. That's a concept call. Those phantoms are constantly moving and I had not even thought about 'forms' in the square dance set then!
When the pi quake happened, I almost swooned and I am using the word literally.
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This incident with my pictures was a major 'event' in which the obviously precise timing had to be noticed. I'd been reading a book at a certain page (31, the first two numerals in pi) and that matched up precisely with getting a packet of pictures. This brought about the realization that this was what some people might have thought of as 'coincidence'. But I knew it had built up over a period of years and nobody but me would ever know that.
But it also meant something else that was more difficult to name because it was not so much 'coincidence' as an 'identifying experience', somewhat like describing to me that what I was doing had somehow been planned. It was a part of some 'Big Picture, in which the long flow of events fit precisely into a greater purpose, one beyond my own life's business. I alone realized the span of time over which it had been built up. There had been a period of time that varied widely in other events connected to this one but this suddenly there event was really a decades long event. It was just the final event on a string of related events that had already happened
It told me, informing me in a flash of time that I had been working on that moment's content, the mindquake, since my first memory on this planet. That had occurred when I was about 2-1/2 years old. The memory of a light bulb hanging above me, feeling cold, hearing the sound of wind coming through cracks in the one car garage my still teen aged parents had rented, knowing my new baby sister was on the same bed with me generated my first thought: "I am in a cold place." That memory complete in every detail flashed through my mind for no reason I could see for until I was in my mid forties, and then I wondered for the first time to myself, about why that memory haunted me, moving like a ghost along the backroads of my mind. (Ghost Riders In The Sky was my dad's favorite song, so that explains my descriptive choice.) There were a few other memories that I had noticed without linking them together the way P. D. Ouspensky did in the remark he made about his 'recurring memories'. Each of mine was separate and I noticed each separately at very different times.
The sudden exposure of the 'relatedness' of such events in the past had made it difficult to be aware of in this particular attribute, of precise timing that I could not have brought about myself. Such events as this one made the point. The purpose of this kind of event seems to me to primarily identify an individual and to build trust that one is not 'crazy'. I had felt so strange for several years ( 1982-1987) until I began to get a sense that there was something sensible at work, that was not 'crazy'.
When I use the word 'identify', I mean naming or presenting to that individual some detail about their life that is unmistakable because it's so specific. I had been using the name 'pimoebius' for several years by the time this event happened.
Now thing about this: I got newly developed pictures, one has a flaw on it which in a glance seemed to me to be a section of ribbon with colored streaks, twisted and pure white at the center. It looked like a 'twist'at first glance, a section of a moebius band with a 180 degree twist in it. The association was immediate because I've had this 'idea' about a 'moebius twist concept' brought forth in myriads of related experiences.
Behind the image was a string of events linked to the moebius band and the way I had become aware of it from an impulse that I believed had it's beginning when I was about 9 years old. I'd had an impulse that I experienced as a though, that caused me to do two things at different times. The first impulse had happened after I'd written the 'times tables' so I could memorize them. "Add the double numbers across." was the thought. I'd then noticed a hidden pattern in each times table. It was nothing very profound but to me it was 'nice'. The second event had caused me to make my first moebius band after I read a definition in a dictionary. "Take a band of paper of any length, twist one end a half turn and paste the ends together." was the thought. After I'd done that I looked at the result wondering what could be the use of such a thing. A thought: "Cut it around it's center lengthwise." caused me to do just that. The result was interesting and a surprise. The same words occurred again: "Cut it around it's center lengthwise." Again I cut the long band around and was completely surprised by the result, which was two separate bands, joined in a knot that I didn't think could be severed.
One day in 1988 or thereabouts I had an impulse to draw one half of a square dance formation on the end of a transparent band, facing the end and then drew the other half on the opposite end also facing the end which I twisted one half turn then joined. The result was a normal formation; any formation can be used. I had never understood the concept of 'mirror image' which almost everyone I knew told me was the basic idea in square dancing until then. I also had not thought about 'binary units', or situations where 1 + 1 = 1 until that moment. A couple are a unit, as well as individuals in the square dance.
I knew in a flash after the pi mindquake hat I'd been led by that impulse to 'discover' the secret of the moebius band with a half turn in it. . The 'moebius twist' as a concept that's the basis of the square dance set is familiar to me from many years of experiences linked to this image.
The idea that a 'thing' or 'content' can be split off, separated completely from something that it's joined to formed very slowly, after events happened (1989 and afterwards) that caused me to begin to think about Time, phases in Time, patterns in Time, or even content in Time... On May 18, 1989 I bought a printout of the news of the day, month and year I was born and it said I'd been alive 20,956 days. I had not thought about calculating the days I'd been alive. I also noticed that the date was exactly 10 years after Mt. St. Helens' blew her top and I had been feeling many changes in my mind, body and personal life even then. The printout also contained information about the new physics, the particles inside the atom and the discover of the function of neurons in the brain were awarded Nobel Prizes in the same year. I was born 1-2-32. One day I decided to verify whether the information on the printout was correct so I went to the University of Washington Library and looked at that day's news. There was nothing relevant to the printout so I prepared to leave, disappointed partly because I'd been reading books about quantum physics that somehow seemed very interesting and strangely familiar. As I walked away a thought occurred that the news is always a day late so I asked for the Chicago newspaper of 1-3-32. It had a large article about Arthur H. Compton's work with particles. "Flaw found in material formula." The article mentioned that human thought and activities had to be considered in the equation, Einstein's e = mc2
This kind of impeccable timing has happened to me throughout my life but I could not have noticed it until several similar events happened. I'd been an employee of the Boeing Company for a bit more than 2 years, that would be sometime in 1987,when a few startling events similar to this one happened that caused me to be quite astonished at the utterly unbelievable timing involved. I will recite a few of them later, but back to my 'history of discovering my relationship to pi':
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There are other incidents with 'pi':
Digital clocks are everywhere now. Recently I've noticed that if I happen to glance at a clock in my living room or anywhere else, in my car or at work, it says 3:14 which then changes to 3:15.
Pi, the number 3.14159265358.... has had a distinct relationship to certain details of my life, many details long before I noticed them.
I lived at 3014 61st Ave. for several years without thinking of the 0 as a big decimal point or that 3014 were the first numbers of pi. One day the relationship appeared and to make matters more laughable, I did not look for the relationship. I never look for such relationships; they are formed and I see them as a kind of suddenly revealed content, something I could have noticed many times in the past usually. That day I saw the numerals 61 in the street address according to the rule of "Roman numbers" where if a larger number precedes a smaller number, the smaller is subtracted. That meant that 61 became 15.
The rule was not one I constructed myself, it just formed. I just saw 3.1415... in my address for the first time one day.
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Recently I was assigned a disabled persons parking slot at work.
When I received the parking slot assignment at work it was Tier 3, #1415. I was surprised, because 3.1415 stood out as though it was highlighted because by that point in time I'd had many 'pi' events. It was funny: My parking slot was 3.1.415!
But before I got the parking slot at work, I'd had to get a Washington permit. The number on it was 17165. So when I got the number at work an immediate association formed in my mind that connected the numbers:. A kind of 'moebius twist reversal' joined 3.1415 with the end number of 17165. The last number 5 on my parking slot number linked to the end of the state issued number with the numbers reversed, so I read 3.14151617!
I know the state has no connection to my employer designating a parking slot, but I asked to be certain. There's no connection.
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This happened recently, in 2007: I was in hurry to get home to see Dr. Phil at 3:00 but traffic was not moving. I glanced at the clock and it said 3:14. I sighed, happy that the show can be seen later in the evening. The cars on my left moved forwards enough that the license plate on the car made me laugh. It was a vanity plate with these numbers and letters: 314 TOO.
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These are only a few examples of how certain numbers mark a pathway in my life, they seem now to have been installed to function much like road signs. I had reason to need to prove to myself, and try to prove to someone else that I wasn't, uh, crazy, even in 1981, at Christmas time when I'd been unable to sleep because thought about a dream I'd had moved through my mind day and night, never stopping so I could loose consciousness. I never work up, I never had the sense of 'vanishing' into oblivion after that dream.
The numbers have changed at points and the pi digits were not the first such numbers that kept showing up everywhere. It was a surprise when pi became a 'significance' in my life. I went through more than a decade of discovering there were relationships in my life, to the number: 651, then 156, then to 256 and 265 . And of course 32. These numbers emerged singly, on a kind of continuum that related in a way I would not have been able to imagine to what was actually going on in my life.
Then quite suddenly those numbers were used in what I named my 'pi quake' after it happened in 1989. It happened when I read a book, The History of Pi by Petr Beckmann. I'd read most of the book then after reading the copyright statement I turned back to the first of two pages that had "10,000 decimals of 100, 265 calculated in 1962" on them. I'd thought for a few minutes about '100,265' wondering why the number wasn't rounded off to 100,000 or 100,250 or 100,500 and that kind of 'wondering' was not typical for me even then!
In a flash of time a pattern was exposed that as I said, almost floored me because I knew this pattern had built up from the time I was about 9 years old and a few incidents happened that were the result of an impulse, a thought that had caused me to learn in isolation, just from an impulse and a thought, some fact that I later read about somewhere or learned from someone. There are certain habits and experiences I've had from a young age and then other experienced joined them throughout my life, none of them being related to 'numerology' of which I knew less than nothing, that have caused me to look at numbers in a certain way. When the impulse caused me to 'add numbers across', that led to learning about 'casting out 9's' when I became a bookkeeper, and 'sums of digits', 'cross summing', then 'modulo 9', which are other names for the same thing!
But the individual numbers are always related to some detail in my actual life at the time. The number 651 emerged in stages, when I bought an automobile licensed as ETW 651. The letters and numbers had formed an association in my mind right away so that I always thought of 'Extra Terrestrial Woman' 651 when I saw the license tab. It was formed so spontaneously that I laughed. After some time and many events happened that number advanced and gave way to 265/256. Then one day with hindsight I realized that 156 had been coming at me but I'd not paid any attention to that number, although it made me angry almost automatically every time I got a letter from an attorney whose address was 156th Ave.
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The pattern that I thought I'd discovered and named the 'moebius twist' surprised me when I noticed a mathematical formula had already been named the 'moebius transformation'. It was a real surprise to find out there was an equation for the 'moebius twist'! How I became aware of this equation before the Internet made it easy to get information was accidental. I'd asked for a library search about something and when I got the page with my information on it that just happened to have the equation on the same page.
Yet in the early 1990's I knew nothing about the mathematical world but I had already become aware of this concept, in a nonmathematical way. It is the basis of the square-dance set but now I realize it's a real cosmic level concept. As it is in small things, so it is in large things!
How I became aware of this is nothing less than evidence there is an intelligence in a hidden reality at work, behind the every day life of any individual and in certain very specific groups of people.
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I saw the pi model for the first time on the day I went for orientation as a new hire on the date: 2-11-85. I knew nothing about the history of pi at that point. Seeing the pi statue was oddly thrilling however odd that may seem, coming from an individual that struggled with high school algebra. It is worth making my reader aware that I had been a challenge level 2 square dancer for a few years and had belonged to a short lived club formed by a man I knew had been employed by Boeing. He'd used Pride In Excellence as his club logo so immediately I understood where his Pride In Excellence attitude had it's origin. That day I drove my ETW 651 automobile through the security gates and had to join a union which angered me very much. I needed the job so resentfully I joined International Associated Machinists Lodge 751, or IAM 751.
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A few years later (1989) I chanced to spot a pretty black covered book with a big white pi symbol on it as I passed through the library. I paused to glance at it, then decided to read The History of Pi by Petr Beckmann.
That was a moment that opened the door to information I'd not known previously, such as that 'quadrature of the circle' or 'squaring of the circle' had been a mathematical pursuit for centuries. I smiled somewhat when I realized that 'squaring the circle' in a square-dance set is quite easily accomplished, it happens all the time. "Square 'em up' and 'Circle up 8!" I had noticed a 'stray thought' occur into my mind about 'squaring the circle' before I read it in the book and I'd asked the Jungian psychiatrist I was seeing occasionally if he knew anything about 'squaring the circle'. He was very much into 'symbols' but he had not heard of it
I'd read most of the book, learning about the Fibonacci pattern, 1,1,2,3, 5, 8...and noticing that somehow my mind seemingly brought my father's birth-date, forth 5-23-1. The first Fibonacci numbers were his birth-date in reverse except that 2 & 3 were a 'twisted pair'. I didn't look for that relationship, it developed in a way I can describe but not account for. I had always thought it was interesting that my birth date, 1-2-32 was a circular number, repeating endlessly, 1,2,3,2,1,2,3... but I had never noticed that our daughter's birthdate 4 -5-63 was also: 4,5 6 3,4,5,6,3... I do NOT look for such relationships, I noticed they came into my mind just almost spontaneously.
At some point I turned to the index to look up something, noticing for the first time two pages of decimals in the back. I paused to read the copyright statement on the last page but something puzzled me about the statement: "The first 10,000 of 100,265 decimals calculated in July 1961..." which will seem absurd to my reader when I describe the thoughts that came into my mind.
I thought for a few minutes about why the 'odd' number of 100,265 was chosen, rather than a neat round number like 100,250 or 100,000, or 100,500. . My wonderings about '265' as an 'odd choice' were on the 'top of my mind' along with several other incidents that had happened in the few weeks prior to that day. Several different events had caused the number 265/256 to 'stand out' vividly. They were strange events, I'd have to write a couple of pages to describe them. But by the time I glanced at the copyright statement, the number 265 was right there in the forefront of my attention.
When I turned back to the first page of decimals at first glance I saw those numbers 265 in the first line: 3.1415926535.
Then it happened. I had my third really big 'mindquake', as I noticed a mass of rearrangements occur extremely rapidly in the decimals in the first block of decimals. I 'saw' the Fibonacci numbers: 1,1,2,3,5,8 in the first glance, somehow that flashed first then a kind of 'slide show' happened, so quickly that I'm surprised that I remembered all of the 'funny' associations that came up with numbers 156/651. Then the pattern that I discovered so slowly, the 'moebius twist pattern' emerged in the first 10 numerals: 3141592653... My patterns operated on them and what emerged was the surprising fact that the first 6 decimals were cross summed 14, 15, 92 resulted in 5,6,2 and the last 6 decimals literally then mirrored the first numerals in this way: 3 5 6 2 653 ... and the next number is 5 and the 5,3,5 mirror also. The fact that 8, the next Fibonacci number formed another association at first glance, There's a lot more, this is just the easiest to describe. I knew immediately because my past with it's history of 'certain events' that had happened in relation to an impulse, just an impulse was distinctly displayed, wordlessly, but in a way that really shocked me.
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More about it later. Many habits I'd acquired early in life as well as many experiences I'd had throughout my life shaped this flashing re-arrangement that exposed many hidden patterns that may not seem significant to anyone else. They made a connection to the early years of my life that I had not suspected, beginning with the few incidents in which I'd learned something seemingly trivial from an impulse, a thought that came from no person.
There have been a few similar incidents in which I noticed what my mind was doing, as though it were to be looked at the way I would observe something outside of my body. This was a distinct change: looking at what my mind was doing, in this case pausing to 'ruminate' about an insignificant detail like 'why 100,265 rather than a round number?' This kind of ruminating which occurred to me in the style of Theodore Reik's inner musings to himself in Listening With The Third Ear, and Fragment Of A Great Confession, brought out the number 265 and made it 'stick' in my memory along with retrieving several incidents that had happened fairly recently, involving other numbers that were very much evident in my daily life over a period of years: 156, 256, 26.. I'll write about them in more detail.
There was a very great difference between this event and the one that had happened in 1984.
I could relate immediately to this mindquake, as I had been able to do to the second one which also happened a few months prior, in 1989. I could not relate to the first one in 1984, because it had emerged into a very deep level of mind that was quite remote from the moment it happened, from the 'now' when it happened. It had to be discovered quite slowly, and a very odd situation happened that caused me to realize it came from a memory extremely remote from 'words' that could be written then spoken aloud.
It was as visible as the second and third big mindquakes but it was experienced, some of it was remembered without any curiosity and then discovered afterwards. By then I had begun to feel very uncomfortable in my body, I was unable to sleep at night, and I was finding out that I could not read and remember what I read; I was getting lost for reasons I suspected had to do with a terrible blow on my head and I felt driven to do many things that were not typical for me to do. The familiar every day world now contained something new to me that affected my body at times so that I felt extremely 'dizzy'.
The first mindquake happened during that phase, which was more than two years long having begun in about 1982. It was during the process of 'discovering' it, 'bit of information by bit of information' that I became aware of unbelievably precise timing involved in many events that happened in the ordinary daily life I was living at that point and certain content in books I came upon and chose randomly. Almost always I found myself 'choosing books' without even wanting to read them myself, some other part of me was doing the selecting, directing my body's activities (and passivities). I felt very remote from what it was that I was watching, which was my body, my inner content ( a very 'thoughtful' mind had replaced a nearly 'empty' head in the early 1980's) and everything outside of my body, and I was seeing a strangely altered world where words sounded different, taking on different meanings than my 'normal' way of hearing had produced.
When I really looked closely trying to see what had changed I could not see anything different. After a few events happened that explained why no 'thing' was changed yet everything seemed altered, I began to understand that the agent of change was in my head. It was familiar after about a year, I knew where the 'agent of change' had it's origin, which was quite different than where I had believed it had begun.
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I'm not into mathematics, I knew nothing about 'numerology'. I knew nothing about 'cranks who come up with solutions to cosmic level problems' until 1993. Then I found out about 'cranks' and also about numerology when in complete innocence I wrote a letter to Martin Gardner. He does the same kind of 'irrational association formation' as I've described in several events without risk of being laughed at, or thought of as a 'crank' because he is one very knowledgeable man! What happened when I read The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix is one of the first really amazingly precisely timed events that caused me to have to thing about how such precision of personal experience and something else in the exterior world could happen.
