Author: Sam Oputa
Publisher: Sam Oputa
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
In The Greatest Celestial Deception, we take you on a profound journey into the heart of ancient mind-set and practices, revealing a breathtaking, hidden reality that will transform your life forever and in many ways. Far from offering simple interpretations, platitudes, and general principles, The Greatest Celestial Deception immerses you into the surprisingly archaic practices in the world of the ancients of various ages while using modern knowledge as a guide. While presenting you with all the incredible evidence to support this, you will discover for yourself that modernity has not put a dent in how or what the ancients worshipped or religious practices of modern people. It is disheartening that many people have gone to their graves believing what they believe—a lie. Millions of people have believed in teachings that were intended for disinformation. They believed because, in the eyes of the innocent, the teachings appear to be convincing and true. If you don’t believe their teachings, they convince you that there is a thing called faith. When that fails, they describe your culture and practices as paganism and Satanism. They make you feel less of a human and even threaten your well-being and life. They are succeeding, especially with the promise of heaven or hell in an afterlife as your two choices.
The Greatest Celestial Deception
Author: Sam Oputa
Publisher: Sam Oputa
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
In The Greatest Celestial Deception, we take you on a profound journey into the heart of ancient mind-set and practices, revealing a breathtaking, hidden reality that will transform your life forever and in many ways. Far from offering simple interpretations, platitudes, and general principles, The Greatest Celestial Deception immerses you into the surprisingly archaic practices in the world of the ancients of various ages while using modern knowledge as a guide. While presenting you with all the incredible evidence to support this, you will discover for yourself that modernity has not put a dent in how or what the ancients worshipped or religious practices of modern people. It is disheartening that many people have gone to their graves believing what they believe—a lie. Millions of people have believed in teachings that were intended for disinformation. They believed because, in the eyes of the innocent, the teachings appear to be convincing and true. If you don’t believe their teachings, they convince you that there is a thing called faith. When that fails, they describe your culture and practices as paganism and Satanism. They make you feel less of a human and even threaten your well-being and life. They are succeeding, especially with the promise of heaven or hell in an afterlife as your two choices.
Publisher: Sam Oputa
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
In The Greatest Celestial Deception, we take you on a profound journey into the heart of ancient mind-set and practices, revealing a breathtaking, hidden reality that will transform your life forever and in many ways. Far from offering simple interpretations, platitudes, and general principles, The Greatest Celestial Deception immerses you into the surprisingly archaic practices in the world of the ancients of various ages while using modern knowledge as a guide. While presenting you with all the incredible evidence to support this, you will discover for yourself that modernity has not put a dent in how or what the ancients worshipped or religious practices of modern people. It is disheartening that many people have gone to their graves believing what they believe—a lie. Millions of people have believed in teachings that were intended for disinformation. They believed because, in the eyes of the innocent, the teachings appear to be convincing and true. If you don’t believe their teachings, they convince you that there is a thing called faith. When that fails, they describe your culture and practices as paganism and Satanism. They make you feel less of a human and even threaten your well-being and life. They are succeeding, especially with the promise of heaven or hell in an afterlife as your two choices.
The Greatest Celestial Deception
Author: Sam Oputa
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719573351
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
In The Greatest Celestial Deception, we take you on a profound journey into the heart of ancient mind-set and practices, revealing a breathtaking, hidden reality that will transform your life forever and in many ways. Far from offering simple interpretations, platitudes, and general principles, The Greatest Celestial Deception immerses you into the surprisingly archaic practices in the world of the ancients of various ages while using modern knowledge as a guide. While presenting you with all the incredible evidence to support this, you will discover for yourself that modernity has not put a dent in how or what the ancients worshipped or religious practices of modern people.It is disheartening that many people have gone to their graves believing what they believe-a lie. Millions of people have believed in teachings that were intended for disinformation. They believed because, in the eyes of the innocent, the teachings appear to be convincing and true. If you don't believe their teachings, they convince you that there is a thing called faith. When that fails, they describe your culture and practices as paganism and Satanism. They make you feel less of a human and even threaten your well-being and life. They are succeeding, especially with the promise of heaven or hell in an afterlife as your two choices.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719573351
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
In The Greatest Celestial Deception, we take you on a profound journey into the heart of ancient mind-set and practices, revealing a breathtaking, hidden reality that will transform your life forever and in many ways. Far from offering simple interpretations, platitudes, and general principles, The Greatest Celestial Deception immerses you into the surprisingly archaic practices in the world of the ancients of various ages while using modern knowledge as a guide. While presenting you with all the incredible evidence to support this, you will discover for yourself that modernity has not put a dent in how or what the ancients worshipped or religious practices of modern people.It is disheartening that many people have gone to their graves believing what they believe-a lie. Millions of people have believed in teachings that were intended for disinformation. They believed because, in the eyes of the innocent, the teachings appear to be convincing and true. If you don't believe their teachings, they convince you that there is a thing called faith. When that fails, they describe your culture and practices as paganism and Satanism. They make you feel less of a human and even threaten your well-being and life. They are succeeding, especially with the promise of heaven or hell in an afterlife as your two choices.
Journey of the Soul
Author: Sam Oputa
Publisher: NYBookz
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Can anything be more agonizing than the burden of an idea that we are doomed to die at the end? Imagine all your struggles on this earth, and the experiences you had acquired, will one day be gone as that flash of life energy leaves the encumbered casing. That is exactly what most people accept to be true. Our inability to understand our soul’s journeys is our inability to understand our physical and immaterial existence. That most of us cannot differentiate physical material and nonphysical immaterial existence is reason enough not to understand creation and its purpose. But once we understand, we begin to see the purpose for physical material death and the reason for the immaterial part of us to rejuvenate by taking a new cocoon—a new body—to continue its journeys and its purpose to learn and experience. Always remember that life existed before creations.
Publisher: NYBookz
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Can anything be more agonizing than the burden of an idea that we are doomed to die at the end? Imagine all your struggles on this earth, and the experiences you had acquired, will one day be gone as that flash of life energy leaves the encumbered casing. That is exactly what most people accept to be true. Our inability to understand our soul’s journeys is our inability to understand our physical and immaterial existence. That most of us cannot differentiate physical material and nonphysical immaterial existence is reason enough not to understand creation and its purpose. But once we understand, we begin to see the purpose for physical material death and the reason for the immaterial part of us to rejuvenate by taking a new cocoon—a new body—to continue its journeys and its purpose to learn and experience. Always remember that life existed before creations.
Enki & Enlil: My Brother, My Enemy
Author: Sam Oputa
Publisher: Sam Oputa
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In Enki & Enlil, My Brother My Enemy, we will take you on an unimaginable and profound journey into the heart of ancient settings, musings, ancient mind-set, ancient histories, and ancient practices to reveal a breathtaking, hidden reality that will transform your understanding and life forever and in many ways. The suggestions in this work will show that we are debating present and ancient matters that will help uplift you spiritually. Spirituality, in this sense, is enlightenment—nothing else. Enlightenment is perhaps one of the reasons even the Gods are at each other’s throats up to this day. Enlightenment is so highly-priced that Enlil was willing to antagonize Enki in His attempt to "civilize” mankind. Enlil was willing to become man’s opposer and even Enki’s enemy because He did not want any enlightenment for mankind. In Enki & Enlil, My Brother My Enemy, we will show that there is indeed a God. How you define that God is up to you and may change after reading this book. Though the general assumption is that God is One, there are those who have explained how such an assumption was reached and thus propagated. Enki & Enlil were no happenings of circumstances. They deliberately traveled to earth for purposes serving their interests. Anu was the leader, and the other extraterrestrials were His subjects. Earthlings acknowledge them as Gods. Today, the extraterrestrials—aliens—are simply and popularly known as God & and the angels. Indeed, Enki & Enlil so frequently appear in our daily lives through the Bible’s Old Testament. Not many people know that their lives were and are influenced by Enki alias Satan and “God” alias EL Shaddai, EL this and EL that, and all the other commandeered and assimilated names. Whatever the “offence” Enki (Satan) may have “committed” and/or was accused of, such a charge is indeed laughable today and always will be, at least if not for anything but for the scale of its inaccuracy. Today, however, like a cockroach before a jury of Chickens, Enki, too, cannot get justice, equity, and good acknowledgement among mankind mostly due to the on-going campaign of calumny. The books of the Old Testament in the Bible don’t tell lies. Whether it had been tampered with is another debate altogether. As for the New Testament, it is impossible to testify and swear to its truthfulness. If you are a student of the Old Testament, Enki & Enlil, My Brother My Enemy is a must-read if you indeed want to understand the ancient books and their writings, and the Old Testament. The writings of the Old Testament were true then and are true today. Depending on your reality, you may want to realize your own truth, but at the end of the written text is what it is—the truth. Whether Enki or Enlil, you are implored to decide who the jolly good fellow was and is. Who is the jolly good fellow? Who is the bad fellow? One of them is BAD. REALLY BAD. The other is GOOD. SO GOOD. Who then was/is mankind’s opposer? You’d be shocked, but this truth has been staring us all in the face, as the narratives of the Old Testament attest to. The crafty diversions used to deceive readers into becoming believers employed by those who put the Old Testament together have come home to roost. The so-called monotheism cannot hold up. Was the so-called monotheism, therefore, a gimmick or an attempt at impression to deceive? Finding the truth could be hard even while it is in plain sight. The truth, however, is like Mark Twain’s quote, “A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Publisher: Sam Oputa
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In Enki & Enlil, My Brother My Enemy, we will take you on an unimaginable and profound journey into the heart of ancient settings, musings, ancient mind-set, ancient histories, and ancient practices to reveal a breathtaking, hidden reality that will transform your understanding and life forever and in many ways. The suggestions in this work will show that we are debating present and ancient matters that will help uplift you spiritually. Spirituality, in this sense, is enlightenment—nothing else. Enlightenment is perhaps one of the reasons even the Gods are at each other’s throats up to this day. Enlightenment is so highly-priced that Enlil was willing to antagonize Enki in His attempt to "civilize” mankind. Enlil was willing to become man’s opposer and even Enki’s enemy because He did not want any enlightenment for mankind. In Enki & Enlil, My Brother My Enemy, we will show that there is indeed a God. How you define that God is up to you and may change after reading this book. Though the general assumption is that God is One, there are those who have explained how such an assumption was reached and thus propagated. Enki & Enlil were no happenings of circumstances. They deliberately traveled to earth for purposes serving their interests. Anu was the leader, and the other extraterrestrials were His subjects. Earthlings acknowledge them as Gods. Today, the extraterrestrials—aliens—are simply and popularly known as God & and the angels. Indeed, Enki & Enlil so frequently appear in our daily lives through the Bible’s Old Testament. Not many people know that their lives were and are influenced by Enki alias Satan and “God” alias EL Shaddai, EL this and EL that, and all the other commandeered and assimilated names. Whatever the “offence” Enki (Satan) may have “committed” and/or was accused of, such a charge is indeed laughable today and always will be, at least if not for anything but for the scale of its inaccuracy. Today, however, like a cockroach before a jury of Chickens, Enki, too, cannot get justice, equity, and good acknowledgement among mankind mostly due to the on-going campaign of calumny. The books of the Old Testament in the Bible don’t tell lies. Whether it had been tampered with is another debate altogether. As for the New Testament, it is impossible to testify and swear to its truthfulness. If you are a student of the Old Testament, Enki & Enlil, My Brother My Enemy is a must-read if you indeed want to understand the ancient books and their writings, and the Old Testament. The writings of the Old Testament were true then and are true today. Depending on your reality, you may want to realize your own truth, but at the end of the written text is what it is—the truth. Whether Enki or Enlil, you are implored to decide who the jolly good fellow was and is. Who is the jolly good fellow? Who is the bad fellow? One of them is BAD. REALLY BAD. The other is GOOD. SO GOOD. Who then was/is mankind’s opposer? You’d be shocked, but this truth has been staring us all in the face, as the narratives of the Old Testament attest to. The crafty diversions used to deceive readers into becoming believers employed by those who put the Old Testament together have come home to roost. The so-called monotheism cannot hold up. Was the so-called monotheism, therefore, a gimmick or an attempt at impression to deceive? Finding the truth could be hard even while it is in plain sight. The truth, however, is like Mark Twain’s quote, “A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
The Real Proof of Heaven
Author: Sam Oputa
Publisher: Sam Oputa
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
There is indeed a Heaven. Heaven, it is said, is the quintessential place for only clean souls that had earlier experienced the earth. Though the general assumption is that only dead people can have access to this “Gorgeous place,” humans have been inside it, and the Bible says so. Heaven, however, is not what the Church has made it out to be. For the Church, Heaven is a tool. The Bible tells us what Heaven is, but the Church interprets Heaven to be what they want it to be. In The Real Proof of Heaven: What & Where Is It? we take you on a profound journey into the heart of ancient mind-set and practices, revealing a breathtaking, hidden reality that will transform your life forever and in many ways. We will literarily take you to Heaven. We are able to take you to the real Heaven because the Ages are exposing the hidden secrets to Mankind. You will see and understand what Heaven is. Far from offering simple interpretations, platitudes, and general principles, The Real Proof of Heaven: What & Where Is It drags you out of the surprisingly archaic thinking that gave us the biblical Heaven in the world of the ancients through various ages while using modern knowledge as a guide. Yes, you will literarily see Heaven as it is because Heaven is as real in the Bible as it is real today. It is physical. It is out there floating in space as one of the biggest spaceships unlimited and uninhibited by space. Heaven is in this universe, in this dimension and with time, someday, humans will start to interact with it. While presenting you with all the incredible evidence to support this, you will discover for yourself that modernity has not put a dent in how or what the ancients thought, believed, and worshipped compared to religious practices of modern people. They were/are the same concepts as people older than us have inferred in their ancient testimonies. The perspectives between the old and new are still the same even while modern peoples spin the same old practices as if it has been koshered. It will be disheartening that many people will have to go to their graves believing what they believe—a lie. The biggest lies of them all—a Heaven and a Hell. Religious texts must be radically and truthfully interpreted as the Ages open up its hidden knowledge to Mankind. Misinterpretation is one reason the pages seem lost on theistic ears already dejected, listening to the words coming out of the mouth of a preacher who is struggling to make a story line out of the texts written thousands of years ago. Millions of people have believed in teachings that were intended for disinformation. They believed because, in the eyes of the innocent, the teachings appear to be convincing and true. If you don’t believe their teachings, they convince you that there is a thing called faith. When that fails, they describe your culture and practices as paganism and Satanism. They make you feel less of a human and even threaten your well-being and life. They are succeeding, especially with the promise of Heaven or Hell in an afterlife as your only two choices. Any attempt and indeed all the attempts to convince you and me, one way or the other, about a proof of a Heaven, is disingenuous and will remain disingenuous. There is no way as a material being that you could interpret the immaterial. It is near impossible. It is even crazy to try and think of it. Whether they say it is by Near Death Experience (NDE), don’t cut it. It does not work that way. Near death experiences is not death. A near miss after shooting a game is not same as a kill. Near death experiences are not the real transformation to another dimension. If a bird dodged my catapult shot, the bird was not near death. The bird might not even know that it has been shot at. Death is death, not near death. Near death experiences are like experiences between dreams and lives: you don’t know what dimension you were in in both experiences until you wake up.
Publisher: Sam Oputa
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
There is indeed a Heaven. Heaven, it is said, is the quintessential place for only clean souls that had earlier experienced the earth. Though the general assumption is that only dead people can have access to this “Gorgeous place,” humans have been inside it, and the Bible says so. Heaven, however, is not what the Church has made it out to be. For the Church, Heaven is a tool. The Bible tells us what Heaven is, but the Church interprets Heaven to be what they want it to be. In The Real Proof of Heaven: What & Where Is It? we take you on a profound journey into the heart of ancient mind-set and practices, revealing a breathtaking, hidden reality that will transform your life forever and in many ways. We will literarily take you to Heaven. We are able to take you to the real Heaven because the Ages are exposing the hidden secrets to Mankind. You will see and understand what Heaven is. Far from offering simple interpretations, platitudes, and general principles, The Real Proof of Heaven: What & Where Is It drags you out of the surprisingly archaic thinking that gave us the biblical Heaven in the world of the ancients through various ages while using modern knowledge as a guide. Yes, you will literarily see Heaven as it is because Heaven is as real in the Bible as it is real today. It is physical. It is out there floating in space as one of the biggest spaceships unlimited and uninhibited by space. Heaven is in this universe, in this dimension and with time, someday, humans will start to interact with it. While presenting you with all the incredible evidence to support this, you will discover for yourself that modernity has not put a dent in how or what the ancients thought, believed, and worshipped compared to religious practices of modern people. They were/are the same concepts as people older than us have inferred in their ancient testimonies. The perspectives between the old and new are still the same even while modern peoples spin the same old practices as if it has been koshered. It will be disheartening that many people will have to go to their graves believing what they believe—a lie. The biggest lies of them all—a Heaven and a Hell. Religious texts must be radically and truthfully interpreted as the Ages open up its hidden knowledge to Mankind. Misinterpretation is one reason the pages seem lost on theistic ears already dejected, listening to the words coming out of the mouth of a preacher who is struggling to make a story line out of the texts written thousands of years ago. Millions of people have believed in teachings that were intended for disinformation. They believed because, in the eyes of the innocent, the teachings appear to be convincing and true. If you don’t believe their teachings, they convince you that there is a thing called faith. When that fails, they describe your culture and practices as paganism and Satanism. They make you feel less of a human and even threaten your well-being and life. They are succeeding, especially with the promise of Heaven or Hell in an afterlife as your only two choices. Any attempt and indeed all the attempts to convince you and me, one way or the other, about a proof of a Heaven, is disingenuous and will remain disingenuous. There is no way as a material being that you could interpret the immaterial. It is near impossible. It is even crazy to try and think of it. Whether they say it is by Near Death Experience (NDE), don’t cut it. It does not work that way. Near death experiences is not death. A near miss after shooting a game is not same as a kill. Near death experiences are not the real transformation to another dimension. If a bird dodged my catapult shot, the bird was not near death. The bird might not even know that it has been shot at. Death is death, not near death. Near death experiences are like experiences between dreams and lives: you don’t know what dimension you were in in both experiences until you wake up.
The Religion of God (Divine Love)
Author: His Divine Eminence Ra Gohar Shahi
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 1452549079
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The excerpts from the book for quick awareness: 1. Those who love God but do not practise a religion are better than you if you follow a religion and yet are deprived of Gods love. 2. Love relates to the heart. The word, Allah, when synchronised within heartbeats, reaches all veins and arteries through the blood and revives the souls. Then the souls, engulfed by Gods name, Allah, enter Gods love. 3. All names given to God in all languages are worthy of respect. However, Gods original name is Allah, which is a word from the Suryani language. The creatures of empyrean speak this language. The angels call upon God with the name of Allah. Allah is attached with the faith declaration motto of every prophet. 4. Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect. 5. Many Adams were sent in different regions of the world simultaneously. All Adams were moulded from the clay in this world, for except the last Adam who was moulded from the clay in paradise, and is buried in the Arab region. The angels did not prostrate to any other Adam for except Adam Safi Allah. And Iblis (the Devil) developed enmity for the progeny of Adam Safi Allah only. 6. There are seven different sub-spirits in the human skeleton, and each relates to a different realm, a different paradise, and different functions in the human body. If these sub-spirits are empowered with Gods light (Noor), they may appear in human form in many places simultaneously. They may reach the esoteric gatherings of the saints and the prophets, speak with God, and even see God in person also. 7. There are two different types of religions for all humans: the religion for the body, which expires when the body does, and the religion for the soul, which existed even in the primordial timethat is Gods love. And only this religion elevates humans. 8. Ishq (Rapturous Love) of Allah is above all other religions, and seeing Allah is above all forms of worship. 9. Information on how human beings, animals, plants, and stones were brought into existence, and why something is prohibited or permissible. 10. Who pre-existed the Amr Kun (the command Be) of the souls and the angels? Which dog will enter the paradise in form of Qatmir? The souls of which individuals had already affirmed the declaration of faith in the primordial time? The secret of which man is not mentioned in this book?
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 1452549079
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The excerpts from the book for quick awareness: 1. Those who love God but do not practise a religion are better than you if you follow a religion and yet are deprived of Gods love. 2. Love relates to the heart. The word, Allah, when synchronised within heartbeats, reaches all veins and arteries through the blood and revives the souls. Then the souls, engulfed by Gods name, Allah, enter Gods love. 3. All names given to God in all languages are worthy of respect. However, Gods original name is Allah, which is a word from the Suryani language. The creatures of empyrean speak this language. The angels call upon God with the name of Allah. Allah is attached with the faith declaration motto of every prophet. 4. Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect. 5. Many Adams were sent in different regions of the world simultaneously. All Adams were moulded from the clay in this world, for except the last Adam who was moulded from the clay in paradise, and is buried in the Arab region. The angels did not prostrate to any other Adam for except Adam Safi Allah. And Iblis (the Devil) developed enmity for the progeny of Adam Safi Allah only. 6. There are seven different sub-spirits in the human skeleton, and each relates to a different realm, a different paradise, and different functions in the human body. If these sub-spirits are empowered with Gods light (Noor), they may appear in human form in many places simultaneously. They may reach the esoteric gatherings of the saints and the prophets, speak with God, and even see God in person also. 7. There are two different types of religions for all humans: the religion for the body, which expires when the body does, and the religion for the soul, which existed even in the primordial timethat is Gods love. And only this religion elevates humans. 8. Ishq (Rapturous Love) of Allah is above all other religions, and seeing Allah is above all forms of worship. 9. Information on how human beings, animals, plants, and stones were brought into existence, and why something is prohibited or permissible. 10. Who pre-existed the Amr Kun (the command Be) of the souls and the angels? Which dog will enter the paradise in form of Qatmir? The souls of which individuals had already affirmed the declaration of faith in the primordial time? The secret of which man is not mentioned in this book?
The Magdalene Deception
Author: Gary McAvoy
Publisher: Empraxis LLC
ISBN: 9780990837657
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Discovery of long-hidden documents in the Vatican Secret Archives reveals the Resurrection to be a myth.
Publisher: Empraxis LLC
ISBN: 9780990837657
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Discovery of long-hidden documents in the Vatican Secret Archives reveals the Resurrection to be a myth.
A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for our Destiny in Data
Author: Alexander Boxer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039363485X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
An illuminating look at the surprising history and science of astrology, civilization’s first system of algorithms, from Babylon to the present day. Humans are pattern-matching creatures, and astrology is the universe’s grandest pattern-matching game. In this refreshing work of history and analysis, data scientist Alexander Boxer examines classical texts on astrology to expose its underlying scientific and mathematical framework. Astrology, he argues, was the ancient world’s most ambitious applied mathematics problem, a monumental data-analysis enterprise sustained by some of history’s most brilliant minds, from Ptolemy to al-Kindi to Kepler. Thousands of years ago, astrologers became the first to stumble upon the powerful storytelling possibilities inherent in numerical data. To correlate the configurations of the cosmos with our day-to-day lives, astrologers relied upon a “scheme of heaven,” or horoscope, showing the precise configuration of the planets at a particular instant in time as viewed from a particular place on Earth. Although recognized as pseudoscience today, horoscopes were once considered a cutting-edge scientific tool. Boxer teaches us how to read these esoteric charts—and appreciate the complex astronomical calculations needed to generate them—by diagramming how the heavens appeared at important moments in astrology’s history, from the assassination of Julius Caesar as viewed from Rome to the Apollo 11 lunar landing as seen from the surface of the Moon. He then puts these horoscopes to the test using modern data sets and statistical science, arguing that today’s data scientists do work similar to astrologers of yore. By looking back at the algorithms of ancient astrology, he suggests, we can better recognize the patterns that are timeless characteristics of our own pattern-matching tendencies. At once critical, rigorous, and far ranging, A Scheme of Heaven recontextualizes astrology as a vast, technological project—spanning continents and centuries—that foreshadowed our data-driven world today.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039363485X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
An illuminating look at the surprising history and science of astrology, civilization’s first system of algorithms, from Babylon to the present day. Humans are pattern-matching creatures, and astrology is the universe’s grandest pattern-matching game. In this refreshing work of history and analysis, data scientist Alexander Boxer examines classical texts on astrology to expose its underlying scientific and mathematical framework. Astrology, he argues, was the ancient world’s most ambitious applied mathematics problem, a monumental data-analysis enterprise sustained by some of history’s most brilliant minds, from Ptolemy to al-Kindi to Kepler. Thousands of years ago, astrologers became the first to stumble upon the powerful storytelling possibilities inherent in numerical data. To correlate the configurations of the cosmos with our day-to-day lives, astrologers relied upon a “scheme of heaven,” or horoscope, showing the precise configuration of the planets at a particular instant in time as viewed from a particular place on Earth. Although recognized as pseudoscience today, horoscopes were once considered a cutting-edge scientific tool. Boxer teaches us how to read these esoteric charts—and appreciate the complex astronomical calculations needed to generate them—by diagramming how the heavens appeared at important moments in astrology’s history, from the assassination of Julius Caesar as viewed from Rome to the Apollo 11 lunar landing as seen from the surface of the Moon. He then puts these horoscopes to the test using modern data sets and statistical science, arguing that today’s data scientists do work similar to astrologers of yore. By looking back at the algorithms of ancient astrology, he suggests, we can better recognize the patterns that are timeless characteristics of our own pattern-matching tendencies. At once critical, rigorous, and far ranging, A Scheme of Heaven recontextualizes astrology as a vast, technological project—spanning continents and centuries—that foreshadowed our data-driven world today.
House of Rage and Sorrow
Author: Sangu Mandanna
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510733825
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
One kingdom. One crown. One family. “Maybe it’s time the great House of Rey came to an end. After all, what are we now? Just a house of rage and sorrow.” Esmae once wanted nothing more than to help her golden brother win the crown of Kali but that dream died with her best friend. Alexi broke her heart, and she vowed to destroy him for it. And with her sentient warship Titania beside her, how can she possibly fail? As gods, beasts, and kingdoms choose sides, Alexi seeks out a weapon more devastating than even Titania. Past lives threaten the present. Old enemies claim their due. And Esmae cannot outrun the ghosts and the questions that haunt her. What really happened to her father? What was the third boon her mother asked of Amba? For in the shadows, lurking in wait, are secrets that will swallow her whole. The House of Rey is at war. And the entire galaxy will bleed before the end.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510733825
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
One kingdom. One crown. One family. “Maybe it’s time the great House of Rey came to an end. After all, what are we now? Just a house of rage and sorrow.” Esmae once wanted nothing more than to help her golden brother win the crown of Kali but that dream died with her best friend. Alexi broke her heart, and she vowed to destroy him for it. And with her sentient warship Titania beside her, how can she possibly fail? As gods, beasts, and kingdoms choose sides, Alexi seeks out a weapon more devastating than even Titania. Past lives threaten the present. Old enemies claim their due. And Esmae cannot outrun the ghosts and the questions that haunt her. What really happened to her father? What was the third boon her mother asked of Amba? For in the shadows, lurking in wait, are secrets that will swallow her whole. The House of Rey is at war. And the entire galaxy will bleed before the end.
The Great Known
Author: John Emmett Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description