Series Title: The Art and Science of Synchronicity:  A New Way to See and Experience the World. Pt. 5

Introducing Einstein’s Piper

 

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars, human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper” ~ Albert Einstein

By “dance”, Einstein means movement and by “tune”, he means rhythm or periodicity.

The “invisible piper“ is what religions and spiritualists call God or one of the many other names meaning more or less the same.

It is what the Greek philosophers meant by the word cosmos meaning order and or Universe. In this sense God is an acronym for Galactic Ordering Dynamic.

My studies of the Tzolkin Cycle, the core calendrical component of Maya-Meso-American Calendrical system (MMAC) compels to me to claim that the image you see to your upper left (fig.1) is the musical score played by “Einstein’s piper”.

This report begins the process of deciphering the Tzolkin Code’s “musical score” so that scientist and non-scientist alike may understand the lost art and science of Meso-America’s pre-colonial cultures.

The Arguellen Factor

For the last 10 years I have been studying and tracking what I call the Argüellen interpretation of the Tzolkin Code. And that is the accounting and description of the Tzolkin as per Dr. Jose Argüelles , author of the ground breaking 1987 book, The Mayan factor.

In my report entitled Origins of Mayan Calendar Confusion and 2012 Mania: Separating Fact from fantasy, I show how the Argüellen presentation of the Tzolkin has confused the understanding and hindered the acceptance of his interpretation of Maya-Meso-American Calendrics (MMAC). Nevertheless, it is Argüelles who reveals and explains the Tzolkin as no one had done before or has yet to do–until now.

Argüelles also provides what has proven to be the most controversial aspect of his interpretation.  His dating differs from any of the traditional counts presently in use.

The question of the millennium is, whose accounting is correct?

I present my work on the grounds that the Argüellen interpretation is the correct count.

I have spent the last ten years testing the Argüellen interpretation and it is the express purpose of this and subsequent reports to demonstrate and prove the veracity of the Argüellen accounting and his interpretation of the Tzolkin Cycle and Code. Update: I have published 3 empirical studies that reveal a strong and consistent link between specific Tzolkin cycle days and increases seismic, volcanic and solar activity

In this report I begin to clarify and expound upon the least understood portion of his work and that is the inner workings and intricacies of what I callTzolkin Dynamics (TD).

I will go beyond simply clarifying and validating aspects of the Argüellen interpretation by relating Tzolkin Dynamics to other accepted bodies of scientific knowledge such as genetics, physics and chemistry. You may review my introductory work toward the aforementioned in the report entitled the Science of Synchronicity (ARTSOS) pt. 2: Self Organizing Systems from Atoms to Humanity.

Tzolkin Dynamics TD

The genetic code is a perfect example of a dynamical system. Our DNA consists of distinct chemical parts and it is dynamical in the ways its various parts interrelate and interact with other entities both internal and external to itself (epigentics).  The result of which we call the evolutionary process.

In my understanding the Tzolkin Code is what underlies the genetic code and is some sort of master code for it describes a fundamental cosmology capable of mapping the movement of the heavens as well as the movement of life.

Evolution may be described as a self-organizing, self-replicating, self-sustaining, aggregating dynamic driving the complexification of energy-matter configurations over time.

The Tzolkin Code defines the parts and process of the evolution of energy-matter in the symbolic language of color, whole numbers and imagery.

In pt 2 of ARTSOS: Self Organizing System from Atoms to Humanity I show how the key numbers and the relationships between the key numbers underlying the Tzolkin Code are found at every scale of the energy-matter continuum. It is well accepted among the scientific community that mathematics is the fundamental language of the Universe.

The Tzolkin as Cosmocycle

 

Cosmocycle is a new term in my attempts to universalize the MMAC system. The Tzolkin Cycle as Cosmocycle means that the Tzolkin Code is a charting of the most fundamental properties and processes of the Universe.

Cosmos is Greek for universe and order. Cycle can mean either round, rotation, pattern, rhythm, sequence and succession set.

Cosmocycle means the order of the universe as demonstrated by a self-existing and self-repeating sequence (process) of patterns and rhythms.

From here on in I will use Tzolkin and Cosmocycle interchangeably.

Tzolkin Components

The Tzolkin cycle consists of 3 primary sub-cycles which in turn constitute the 260 part Cosmocycle.

Cycle one is a 4 phase color sequence representing a 4 day cycle. The colored icons in fig.1 represent cycle one repeated 5 times.

Cycle two is the complexification and symbolic outward resulting from the 4 phase color sequence repeated 5 times. 5 times 4 results in the 20 day cycle as denoted by 20 colored icons representing themes and qualities.

Cycle three is a 13 day cycle denoted by a numerical value of 1 through 13. Those numbers are represented on fig.1 as dots and bars—the Maya numerical notation system.

Synchronicity theory posits that the simultaneous interaction of the three cycles describes the step by step process in the evolution of energy-matter at every scale of the energy-matter spectrum.

Let’s say that the 3 cycles are a “reading” of the universe’s “heart beat/mood”, “appearance” and “reproductive system”.

Intelligence is the word I use to describe how elegantly organized the Universe is.

The process I am describing has been approximated by Physicist Garret Lisi’s Simple Theory of Everything (STE) and by MIT computer science professor Edward Fredkin’s digital physics model known as Digital Mechanics (DM).

At this point in my description of the Tzolkin Code I will not be delving into the intricate interpenetration between Tzolkin Dynamics and the two physics models just mentioned.

My introductory description of Tzolkin Dynamics will treat the human realm of naked eye observations. In other words my first explication of Tzolkin Dynamics is how we experience the rhythm and beat of Einstein’s Piper.

The 4 and 20 Principle

The 4 colors and the 20 day cycle: What is meant by a 4 color sequence?

The Tzolkin Code color sequence is red, white, blue and yellow as per the vertical column in fig. 1.  The 4 colors represent distinct, but sequentially related qualities. The colors are to be interpreted as themes or qualities represented by the aspects and attributes of our sensory world.

The aspects and attributes run the full range of what we experience as human beings. They are all of the events, situations, people, animals, plants, objects, process’s and internal feelings that we encounter in our day to day lives.

The implication of what I have just described means that our experience of the world is comprised of 4 primary themes or states.

The 4 states are expressed as 20 variations on the thematic and qualitative content representing the full range of what we call reality or the phenomenal world.

How can that be, you may ask?

Once I was convinced of the Tzolkins ability to predict the thematic content of a given day and that it could also accurately describe personalities and the quality of relationships between personalities it occurred to me that any system capable of predicting such things must by logical necessity be reflected at every level of the energy-matter spectrum.

I reasoned that the numbers and features comprising the Tzolkin must be evident at every scale. And indeed that is what I found.

Please see the Table of Nested Numerical Equivalences Across the Entire Energy-Matter Spectrum for details. The table is complete, but there are many more examples to give to eliminate all doubt.

Human beings are complex arrangements of energy-matter inhabiting and emerging from an equally complex environment (space, quantum field earth, universe) made of the same energy-matter.

There is no break or seam in the energy-matter continuum. Therefore, the laws of physics and chemistry must also apply to human beings and our world of interactions.

There are the obvious examples, such as gravity’s hold on us and that we run out of energy if we don’t eat.

But who would have thought that 4 basic themes and a total of 20 variations on those themes could define and describe the entire human socio-cultural realm inclusive of personality characteristics.

A few people have written about the idea of a social physics and alike, but nobody has been able to apply the language of physics and chemistry to human behavior. And even fewer have considered that the countless events we encounter everyday are all synchronized happenings.

The only reason I can even consider such a possibility is due to my encounter with the Tzolkin. No other culture has discovered the facet of reality that the ancient Meso-Americans codified as the Tzolkin cycle. The Western worldview has the concept of chance woven into their view of reality–implying  degrees of randomness.

The Science of Synchronicity states that in principle randomness is a misperception and/or a misnomer.

Correlates of the 4 and 20 principle at the atomic and molecular realms.

At the atomic realm we find that life’s most complex creation, a human being, is 96% hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen (HCNO)-4 types of elements. In all it takes 20 elements to constitute 99.9999% of a human beings chemical make up.

At the molecular level it takes the 4 nucleobases of the DNA (thymine, adenine, guanine, cytosine TAGC) to provide the basis with which to begin constructing and evolving living organisms. There are two other molecules but their function is largely structural. Please see pt. 2 of SOS for details.

In turn each nucleobase is simply a different combination of HCNO. The 20 amino acids are the building blocks needed to develop a human being or any other organism. The 4 nucleobases are the chemical rungs of the DNA molecule.

The nucleobase sequence along a strand of DNA specifies the kind of amino acid to be produced.  Each amino acid is also just another combination and arrangement of HCNO.

Every living creature of our world is constructed of no more than, but up to 20 amino acids. I think it is now clear to see how 4 elements can lead to such astounding complexity.

At this point I am sure it is still quite fuzzy to see how our day to day world is comprised of a cycle consisting of 4 basic themes and 5 variations on each theme.

I suggest reading part 2 of SOS to help visualize how our world and universe is organized (fractals/nested self-organizing systems) and how we fit into and relate with the universal order of things.

Synchronicity theory posits that all events comprising our world are coordinated according to the 4 and 20 principle as defined by the laws of physics, chemistry, genetics and as exemplified by the Tzolkin Code.

The Implication is that the Tzolkin Code is the formula underlying particle physics, chemistry and the genetic code.

At the level of chemistry the laws of electro-biochemistry can tell us how and why the chemicals of life bond and interact the way they do. At the macro-molecular human level of social bonding and interaction the Tzolkin Code will explain the laws of human character, bonding and interaction. By macro-molecular human I mean the human being as one big molecule

Life is a dynamic electro-chemical, aggregative and complexifying process that can be understood according to the 4 and 20 principle . We know that life forms develop and evolve according to the interaction of the 4 and 20 principle (DNA Code) with its environment which in turn is also largely comprised of HCNO.

Synchronicity theory posits that the 4 and 20 principle as exemplified by the Tzolkin Code develops and evolves human social reality at every scale. That is couples, families, social groups and finally humanity as a whole.

The Tzolkin Code implies that humans posses universal behavioral properties that can be attributed to their net electro-chemical composition as defined together by ones unique and universal biochemical make up.

Meaning we are all unique and we are also very much the same in that we are all made of the same elements. The slight differences between each of us is due to tiny differences in the way our unique set of genes are expressed.

The chemistry of life says we need only 4 basic elements (HCNO) and 4 basic molecules (TAGC) to jump start life.

The interaction of the foundational elements of life (HCNO-TAGC) in conjunction with the environment (epigenetics) results in the creation of the 20 amino acids. Genetics and evolutionary science are complex fields of knowledge. My point is to reveal the basic formula and organizational structure for the evolution of life and the Universe.

Complexity evolves from simplicity and vice versa.

The Tzolkin is saying that humans come in 4 basic “flavors” as defined by the 4 color sequence and that there 5 variations of each flavor as described by the 20 symbols (theme/archetype). I am not referring to cultural variances of behavior, but rather behaviors that exist without the influence of specific cultural circumstances.

Behaviors that can be described as universal. Behaviors such as playfulness, communication, sexuality and alike. There is a table at the end of the article with 57 other characteristics that round out the universal attributes of what it means to be a universal human being.

20 Thematic variations x’s 13 oscillatory phases equals 260 Possible States

The third cycle component of the Tzolkin Code is a 13 day cycle denoted only by a numerical value represented in fig.1 in the traditional Maya dot-bar numerical notation system. The 20 themes indicated by the 20 day cycle are factored by a concurrent 13 day cycle to yield a total of 260 variations.

If the Tzolkin is correct then nature seems to be saying that there are 260 distinct energy-matter states and no more.

Before I lose my more scientifically savvy readers please consider the information in the linked to article in which physicist Garrett Lisi propounds his “ Simple Theory of Everything (STE) ” according to a supercomplex geometric shape known as E8  and consisting of 248 dimensions represented by points.

Each point, Lisi maintains, is a “particle”(discrete energy state) as indicated by the standard model of physics. He has his supporters and his critics as to be expected. My point is to show how that what I am describing is indeed a plausible way of describing how the universe operates and is organized.

The 260 unit Tzolkin Code is only 12 units off from Lisi’s 248 point “Theory of Everything”.  I have also referred to the Digital Physics theory of the Universe as a model describing in principle how the Tzolkin Code works.

How Human “Themes” Arise from Atoms.

The states, qualities and themes I speak of are the emergent properties of atoms themselves, of their interaction and of their net qualities as groupings of atoms. For example, when enough gold atoms clump together to make them visible we see gold’s golden color.

When we mix copper with gold we get a rose tinted gold. When hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen combine in the right environment the result is life. There are of course other elements needed to complete the picture, but HCNO forms the foundation of life.

All life forms are by and large organized agglomerations of HCNO. The self-organizing properties of HCNO result in life. Life is an emergent property of HCNO under the right conditions. The food we eat, our brains and our feelings are made up primarily of HCNO. When something gives you pleasure certain brain cells release dopamine.

Dopamine is a molecule made of a specific arrangement of HCNO. The specificity of dopamine’s HCNO arrangement in conjuction with the HCNO specificity of the brain region where dopamine is produced and released results in the sensation we call pleasure.

All of our sensations and the natural objects perceived by us are largely the result of the countless ways in which HCNO has arranged itself over its roughly 4 billion year evolution on earth.

As mentioned earlier there other elements involved in the development and maintenance of life forms.

HCNO may likened to a painter and the colors the painter uses to paint are the other 16 elements that together with HCNO constitute 99.9999% of a human beings elemental make up . And to be accurate the human body contains trace amounts of 8 other elements. For a more complete elaboration on this subject please see pt. 2 of SOS: Self organizing systems from Atoms to Humanity.

Why Color Matters

The idea of an emergent property in our case means becomes visible, tangible and palpable.  Every element has a color associated with it. Depending on conditions the element in question may absorb or emit more than one kind of color.

Under most circumstances the key elements (HCNO) that I am concerned with have a characteristic color associated with them.

It just so happens that the colors associated with HCNO matches the 4 color Tzolkin sequence. The element number given below is the element’s position on the periodic table of the elements. With regards to HCNO as life’s foundational molecule the sequence goes like this H=1; C=2; N=3 and O= 4. The Tzolkin color sequence is red, white, blue and yellow (RWBY).

Periodic element #1, H1: Hydrogen, emits red light.

Periodic element #6, C2: Carbon emits white light.

Periodic element #7, N3: Nitrogen, emits blue light and is the reason the sky is blue.

Periodic element # 8 , O4: Oxygen emits yellow-green light

The color of light tells us about its energy intensity as measured by its wavelength.

Its wavelength is a measure of how fast a photon is vibrating. Visible light begins with lower energy red and ends with higher energy blue/violet.

It is no coincidence that the 4 day sequence begins with red. However, blue is not the last color of the Tzolkin color sequence–yellow is.

 

It is also interesting to note that stars are classified according to the color they give off. The star color sequence is red, yellow, white and blue. The star color sequence pertains to a stars temperature. The stellar life cycle is responsible for the creation of every element after hydrogen.

According to Tzolkin Dynamics blue and yellow are like two sides of the same coin or two states occupiable by the same entity. The yellow sun is “embedded” in the blue sky or we can say the blue sky has “overlaid” the yellow sun. Another helpful visualization is the earth’s day-night cycle.

The sun facing side is bathed in yellow light of the sun and the opposing side faces the darkness of night. Same earth occupying two states simultaneously.  What is dark becomes light and vice versa.

From our perspective yellow best characterizes completion, maturation or ripening and that is why yellow is the last color of the Tzolkin color sequence. Blue represents black or darkness according to Tzolkin Dynamics. Among other qualities, blue does represent the quality of “raw” energy  as exemplified by the theme (kin) 19 the blue storm. The Mayan name for day or person is kin.

When a storm comes the yellow day turns dark and there is wind, rain, thunder and lightning. Storms, tornadoes, hurricanes are the most energetic natural phenomena we encounter on earth. Again we have the coexistence of darkness and light when storms occur during the day.

The foregoing examples reveal the relationship between yellow and blue as per the color relationship model of which there are 4 kinds of relationships possible between the 4 colors.

Briefly, there is yellows relationship to blue, to white, to red and to itself. I will elaborate on the specifics of the color relationships in the next article. Later on I will also delve into the various Argüellen modifications of the traditional Tzolkin to examine their merit or lack thereof.

Color is an intrinsic property of energy-matter starting from its most basic state. Color indicates qualities and states. Qualities and states transferred to the human level via the aggregative function which makes the invisible world visible and or palpable to us.

Much more to be shared on the subject of the 4 colors and the 20 themes in my next report

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