I can cite a scene in a movie that is somewhat close to representing what happened in this event that I’m going to write about. Mercury Rising has a scene in which an autistic boy opens a new puzzle book he’s been given. He turns to a page, which is shown on the screen and as he looks the numbers, letters and symbols seem to shift about. He goes to the telephone, dials a number and says: “You are a Stranger.” He had somehow observed or decoded a hidden message on the page and it was supposed to be written in an unbreakable code.
In 1992 I was transferred to Everett, Washington. After a few weeks I had to go to medical because I was affected by a chemical. While I waited I read one of two books I had with me. The doctor passed me and made a comment about the books: “We read the same books.” The one I was reading was History of Pi by Petr Beckmann, the other was Godel, Escher and Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. He asked me if I’d read the recent article in The New Yorker Magazine about two brothers who had calculated pi to 2 billion places. I had not but that evening I went to the library and checked out the magazine.
It was in the March 2, 1992 issue and although I glance through the cartoons in that magazine it’s not often I read anything in it.
This event built upon previous events but it exposed an unsuspected attribute of ‘synchronistic experiences’ that had become visible to me through them: Timing that cannot be chance thru randomly occurring events.
At the end of the article there was an arrangement of the last decimals of pi these two brothers had calculated. I only glanced at it because what is there to see in a block of numbers? That’s when the shocking “inner event’ occurred. I am not exaggerating to write that I felt an electrifying body response. I’ve experienced this kind of body response in varying degrees of intensity several times in the past. There’s never been a sense of expectation on my part, they are purely mental events but they are visible and I do remember them clearly.
In a flash of time that has to be a fraction of a second this ‘event’ flashed into existence. It involved a ‘highlighting’ of certain numbers and quite a long series of ‘shifts’ were involved as various combinations of what I saw in the printout were exposed.
The most important detail was that not another person would ever have the background that generated instant recognition of what was exposed. The article had several remarkable ‘coincidences’, which I noticed only because I’ve learned to see them. I don’t look for them; it’s very boring to be trapped into looking for ‘uncanny’ relationships.
This is a sentence is exactly in the form it appeared in the article in the New Yorker Magazine, Mountains of Pi , March 2, 1992
“Pi goes on forever and can’t be calculated to perfect precision:
3.1415926535897932384626433832
79028841971693993751…
Notice that the last numbers in the first row in this sentence are ‘32’ and in the next row ‘751’ reminding me briefly that I was born in 1932. At that point 751 were just numbers except that I’d noticed a mirroring of those numbers in the first block of Petr Beckmann’s arrangement. The number 32 has been in the news in various stories, the OJ Simpson trial in particular, but my favorite Sonics player had been #32 also. I have not always had an awareness as I have now.
Below is a copy of an arrangement of the last decimals of pi that were calculated by the Chudnovsky brothers in New York. It’s at the end of the article.
. . . . . 18820 54573 01261 27678 17413 87779
66981 15311 24707 34258 41235 99801 92693
52561 92393 53870 24377 10069 16106 22971
02523 30027 49528 06378 64067 12852 77857
42344 28836 88521 72435 85924 57786 36741
32845 66266 96498 68308 59920 06168 63376
85976 35341 52906 04621 44710 52106 99079
33563 54625 71001 37490 77872 43403 57690
01699 82447 20059 93533 82919 46119 87044
02125 12329 11964 10087 41341 42633 88249
48948 31198 27787 03802 08989 05316 75375
43242 20100 43326 74069 33751 86349 40467
52687 79749 68922 29914 46047 47109 31678
05219 48702 00877 32383 87446 91871 49136
90837 88525 51575 35790 83982 20710 59298
41193 81740 92975 31……….
The last 2 numbers ‘31’ are mildly surprising. Gregory Chudnovsky notices that the last two numbers are the same as the first two numbers of pi. ‘The last shall be first.” he remarks.
Notice that the first five spaces are empty. The numbers that follow would be in different ‘neighborhoods’ if numbers were in the empty spaces and the same ‘number’ of numbers were used. I noticed as though they were highlighted, the numbers I’ve copied, in their location.
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
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xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx 7xxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxx7 32xxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx x1575 357xx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxx75 31…
Be patient and tolerant, the result is important, and the process is difficult to briefly describe because almost 50 years of personal experience cannot be written, concisely. There is more than I write.
Some habits I’ve had most of my life exposed the division between 75 and 31 on the bottom line then the numbers above them. (This 'division' had occurred in 1989 when a much more complicated event happened when I read Petr Beckmann's History Of Pi and glanced briefly at the copyright statement then turned to the first of two pages of pi's decimals. It's a bit more than I can explain in regard to this Chudnovski event. )
The number 751 seemed to emerge; literally these 3 numbers were the only numbers I saw on one side of the space. On the right side combinations formed the same numbers. 7, below it is 32 which is 5, and below that is 357 and ‘3’ became 1 because counting by 3’, that is 1. This ‘rule’ exposed literal numbers, 157 on the left side. Counting by 7, 7 is 1, counting by 5, 5 is 1 so I saw 751 on both sides but one side was uncoded and the other uncoded. This is the pattern I had noticed in the ‘pi quake’ that had happened in 1989.
This rule formed itself, it’s not one I thought about myself, relating primarily to an experience I’d had with an impulse when I was about 9 years old. That’s when the ‘thought’ occurred to me to add the double numbers ‘across’ in each of the times tables. Later in life there was another experience I’d had two years prior to 1992, that involved Martin Gardener, pi and a book he authored, The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix.
The numbers on one side formed 751, since (as best I can explain it) 7 can be 1, counting by 7's; 5 can be 1, counting by 5's. This is what I saw at the end:
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxx1 xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx x1575 xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxx71 xx…
The numbers 751 on both sides in literal or ‘coded’ form stood out as though lit up. I was reminded at that point that my union lodge number is 751.
I had not thought of that in the past!
The thought formed itself but quickly, I had an impulse to see if the numbers 751 were anywhere else. I glanced upwards and noticed it seemed to ‘gleam’ on the right side in the next batch of 5 decimals:
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xx751xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx 7xxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxx7 32xxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx x1575 357xx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxx75 31…
Then I noticed numbers above and below 751:
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxx89 xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xx751xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx 7xxxx xxx47 xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxxx7 32xxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx x1575 357xx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
xxxxx xxxxx xxx75 31…
The number 8 in that batch gleamed or ‘stood out’ then a circular movement exposed the number 5 below it, then below it the number 4, then across the number 7, then the number 1 above the 7, then up to the number 9 above the number then finally back to the number 8 where the ‘gleaming’ had began.
This circle had generated: 8547198
The numbers 854 7198 clearly presented themselves and I recognized the telephone number we’d had for more than a decade by that time.
This is not the first time my telephone number was exposed.
I had not paid attention to the fact that the ‘first number’ in our telephone number is the same as the ‘last number’, but my history of tracing the ‘infinity symbol 8’ when I doodled was clearly brought forth along with an immense number of ‘strings’ of related memories.
There were as well the long, extremely mundane strings of every day experience that reminded me of the long march behind this ‘suddenly there’ exposure of a very personal and intimate detail that named me, pointed directly towards me.
I could not fail to see there was no personal intent of mine behind this event. There have been many times when I became convinced I had ‘imagined’ my experiences were important on a larger scale than my own life. This kind of ‘event’ forces me to trust in what may seem to be absurd interpretations of events.
This ‘event’ had been preceded by another event that was much more explicit and there’s not a lot of chance it was ‘chance’ that generated these events or the automatic revelation of a personal detail of my specific life.
IAM 751 is the union lodge name and number that I joined the day I became an employee of the company that used pi as their ‘Pride In Excellece’ Awards program logo.
My telephone number is different now, but 854 7198 has another 'strange fact' about it that I had not suspected until the Martin Gardner event exposed it. It began when I bought a book, The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix and began to read it, unawares of who Martin Garner was.
Synchronicity is about 'coincidences' that identify an individual on this planet. This page is about a minor 'mindquake' relating to pi. The 'mindquake' revealed an ultra personal detail about my life, because it built on other experiences that happened prior to it. The continuity could not be ignored nor could I think I was being delusional or 'over-imaginative'.
The individual that experiences what I did in this event I 'm going to write about may recognize immediately that 'nobody on this planet would ever see this or understand what it means, but me.' There are many varieties of 'coincidence' and in my opinion, from experiences of my own, they begin in the 'depths of mind', into which a person can 'see' long before it's possible to discover that they are not connected to 'now', the moment they happen. The content has to move towards 'now', and this is very difficult to describe as a process that seems to operate on it's own. That is important is to notice and be curious, eventually. Noticing that this 'deep memory' had content of it's own began and continued when I noticed processes within my own mind and this began as though it was activated when I was past my mid forties.
I who write now, was an observer to what happened in my own mind, noticing implications and subtle nuance that must be given considerable attention for a period of time that can be decades long. There were moments installed for later use; that is a fact I had to discover myself. It began when my first memory on this planet was 'installed' when I was about two and a half years old. . It re-occurred periodically for decades before I wondered why the image of a single light bulb hanging from a ceiling, directly over my head flashed briefly into my mind. It was a complete moment because I experienced again as the sounds of the moment, wind whistling through cracks in the building, which a one car garage. I felt again what I'd felt at the moment, the knowledge that a new baby sister lay on the bed with me. "I am in a cold place." This re-occurring thought was one of only a few similar moments that were like snapshots preserving a complete brief slice of my actual experience.