WEBVTT - How Numerology Works 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, a production of I 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:13.200 Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:17.080 and there's Chuck, and Chuck's a seven and I'm a nine, 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:22.400 and this is stuff you should know. Yeah, did you 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.880 figure your years out? Are you a nine? Uh? It 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:29.040 depends on my UM seven nine for my birth. I'm 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:34.120 a nine for my UM birth as well my life 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.120 cat number. We're both nines, but you're a you're seven 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.960 for your destiny number if I figured years out, Hey, 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.240 we're all that. That means this all makes sense now, Yeah, 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.360 that's why we were meant to be together on the show. 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:54.360 It was preordained by the spirit herself. So we're talking 0:00:54.360 --> 0:01:00.160 about numerology, which I guess an overarching definition would be, um, 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:06.440 it's a pseudo scientific practice in which people base things 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:10.240 on numbers, like your destiny and who your romantic partner 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.160 should be, and maybe what job you should have and 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.679 stuff like this. Uh. And I just want to say 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.080 at the beginning of this that there are many different 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.440 kinds of numerology, and depending on where you're from, and 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.280 there are many different methods and many different charts, and 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.400 like we're not going to get too far into the 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.360 weeds on those because it's all fake, because it would 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:35.640 just be a super long, like four our episode on numerology. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.760 So this is kind of just an overarching how you know, 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.360 that's what we do. It's it's basically how what numerology 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.880 is and how it works, and and not all the 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:49.360 specificities of each system. Yeah, because your brain starts to 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.280 melt a little bit when you start getting into all that, 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.320 and they're all kind of the same. It's just different 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.440 variations of sort of the same thing. And I think 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.880 the fact that there's so many variations there are supposed 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:03.160 to arrive at a press slice figure kind of also 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.480 warns the person to take the whole thing with a 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.360 grain of salt. But it's apparently way more popular in 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.320 twenty one century America than I realized. How is it? 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.840 Oh yeah, I man going to Bustle and The Cut, 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.680 and um, there's numerology dot com and there's a lot 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:23.240 a lot of sites that have if they're not like 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.160 overtly dedicated to numerology, they have like whole sections dedicated 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.760 to numerology and all that stuff. So the cool kids 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.280 doing it, I think. So I can't tell if it's 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.560 the Millennials or gen Z or I don't know, but 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:40.639 you're not on their Supreme sweatshirt talking about numbers. That's right. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.120 I just met someone who works with them, who works 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.600 for Bustle for it, works for Supreme, and we should 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:52.600 shout out to it's uh master guitar player and is 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.960 this stuff you should know? Fan Matt Sweeney, who in 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.320 the mid nineties had the indie rock sort of math 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:04.520 rock band and Chavez and now has played with everyone 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.600 from Johnny Cash to Adele. I know him from his 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.440 work with Bonnie Prince Billy and I just saw them 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.000 live and I just got to hang out with Sweeney. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.480 Had a great four hour dinner with Matt and his 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.240 girlfriend j R. And j R works for Supreme and 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.520 was telling me all about it. Well, that's fantastic. I 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.880 have someone I'd like to shout out. Let's do it. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.680 I'd like to shout out listener Jimmy McCleod, who deend 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:30.200 out took um guitar lessons from the same Toledo metal band. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.840 Guitar that's me. I saw that that was ramusic in Toledo. 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.120 I was like, oh my god, this is all absolutely correct, 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.840 And he said yes. Indeed, like this guy was in 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.400 attentive at best. He would just go out and and 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.440 talk to people in the store in the middle of 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.440 in the middle of the lessons, I was like, yeah, 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.600 that's right, so thank you for that. That was putting 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.400 all those pieces together for me. My brain don't work 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.960 so so good. Yeah, multiple shoutouts. Is there anything else 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.920 we can talk about that's not numerology. I've got one 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.920 other one. 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So there is a thought among some people 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.159 that numbers have these mystical properties. That's the basis of 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.680 the whole thing, the basis of the whole thing, and 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.760 that that some people even think that these numbers, like 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.760 all things on the planet, have an inherent vibration and 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:02.760 a unique vibration. And if you guide your life by 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.200 numbers that have vibrations that are in sync with one another, 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.560 then you can lead a more complete life and lead 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.200 your best life. Yeah, and the way that ties into 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:20.120 numbers is the idea that that numbers basically run everything. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:25.520 That that that the properties that an individual number has 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.200 can be attributed to things that are associated with that number. 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.039 And you can break everything down into a number. And 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.200 if you can break something down, if you can divine 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:39.520 something's number, you can figure out what lies ahead for them, 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.800 what their personality types going to be, what their challenges are, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:48.240 um and it depending on some numerology systems, you could 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.360 figure out what you're lucky day is, what numbers you 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.200 should play in the latto, like all sorts of different stuff. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.839 But the idea goes well beyond, you know, like picking 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.760 something at roulette. It's it's like the idea numerology is 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.440 very much akin to astrology, where based on your name, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.120 your date of birth, and a few other factors that 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.599 are inherent to you. If you combine those into a number, 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.840 you can figure out what number you're associated with, and 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.719 hence what your destiny will be. That's basically the general 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:24.279 basis of all numerological systems, right, and that The father 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:32.240 of Western numerology is Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher born in 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:37.520 five sixty nine BC who studied numbers and studied music 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.320 and art and all kinds of things. But I think 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.400 one of the things Pythagoras like to do is say, like, hey, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.760 you can actually take the the pluck of a of 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.520 a leer string and you can break that down into 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.320 a number, Like that unique vibration of that note has 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.479 its own number that we can assign to it. That 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.800 was huge, Yeah, I mean he was coming at it 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.400 through some interesting angles at first, I think, And this 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.120 was in five sixty nine, This was the twenty first century. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.480 This is when this probably sounded about a good as 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.280 good as anything. Yeah. Pythagoras and his followers known as 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.440 the Pythagoreans, they that that that school, and I think 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.960 Southern Italy um like they were. They were some of 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:25.720 the first people to really apply a study of mathematics 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:31.560 UM and geometry in particular. UM. I think beforehand, geometry 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.880 was I saw it described as basically a loose set 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.200 of principles that that you could use to like build 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.120 a house with or something like that. It wasn't like 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.640 a like math in and of itself until Pythagoras came 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.440 along and they started realizing like, oh wait, like math 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.840 exists on its own, like it's its own thing, and 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.840 started studying it like that, and started finding it everywhere, 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.520 and started like, like you said, you know that I 0:07:55.560 --> 0:08:01.160 saw um a description that the that that Pythagoras and 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:07.160 the Pythagoreans figured out that um, that music like resonant, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:12.600 like music that's not discordant, but the good stuff UM 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:17.080 is uh like it follows whole integers, and that he 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.400 figured it out by hearing how different hammers in a 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.400 blacksmith's shop harmonized. And he went and looked, and he 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.600 saw that they were those hammers were related mathematically. One 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.880 was say, a one pound hammer, and the other one 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.240 was part of a whole integer, like a half pound hammer. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.560 And he realized there's such a thing as octaves, and 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.000 that like, these were the discoveries they were making and 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.440 so as did some really cool stuff. It is and 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.400 like just stuff we take for granted is like just 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.920 a matter of fact today, like they were figuring out. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.440 They also seemed to have taken a lot of maybe 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.760 mushrooms at the time. And then it got weird. They 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.439 were drinking reindeer p I'm not sure, but they really 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.199 went down the rabbit hole with numbers and start did 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.240 finding these things everywhere, and came to the conclusion that 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.080 numbers were the basis of the fabric of existence in 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.640 life and the universe and everything, and that the the 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.720 the answer to the purpose of life, the perfect purpose 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.360 of existence, was forty two. All right, I think that's 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.960 a good set up, Thank you. All right, well's let's 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.840 take a break now and we'll talk more. We'll maybe 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.720 shout out some more personal friends and friends of the show, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:57.960 and then we'll also talk about numerology. Alright. So you 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.120 mentioned the Pythagoreans, the people who us into and followed 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:05.040 Pythagoras there in southern Italy and studied with him. They 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.880 also came up with some some legit bedrock math that 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.360 we still think of today and used today. Like if 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.400 you've ever heard of the Pythagorean theorem. It's still very 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.200 popular in math class. In maths. Yeah, everybody's got that 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.400 T shirt when they're in sixth grade. Uh huh uh 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.640 and that's the old uh. In a right triangle, the 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.640 square of the length of the hypothenuse is equal to 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.000 the some of the squares of the other two sides. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:37.920 A squared plus B squared equals C squared. And it's 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:39.800 it's interesting that they were coming up with all this 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.400 bedrock stuff and this really cool stuff about figuring out 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:48.400 mathematical mathematical proportions of musical harmonies like you were talking about, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.600 and like, I'm so down with all that. And then 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.040 someone goes, hey, you know, if you add up a 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.559 series of odd numbers beginning with one, the result is 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.880 always going to be a square number. And everyone went, oh, man, 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:09.040 that's right. And then Pythagoras said, yeah, all his number. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.040 And then they all together said, all his number, that's 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.520 exactly how And from there things got a little weird, 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.840 and some people here, all his number and they say, well, 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.360 that means that you can just measure everything in the 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.679 entire world and you can describe it in terms of 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.440 math and numbers and proportions. Fair enough, that's basically the 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.240 basis of our understanding of like geometry and physics. Yes, 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.800 and then other people said no, no, no no, all his number, 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.840 man means like everything in the world is made of numbers. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:44.720 That tree is a number. You are a number because 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.880 they're licking those toads. Yes, and in the background of 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:53.080 reindeer peas quietly into a bucket. So bucket is then 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.520 distributed into small mugs. That's that second part of all 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:01.360 his number is um. That's that's the basis of numerology. 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.880 And that's where it kind of veers away from science. 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.760 And I was reading this, Um, Veers, it takes a 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:12.160 really hard turn. Ye, didn't that what Veers means? I 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.520 think veer is a very gentle turn. Oh, I thought, 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.840 I think, okay, Corene's away from science. Yeah, there what 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.000 you're looking Okay? All right? Um, So I saw a 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.920 really interesting article on b v D M B B 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.240 B b v D b b g D open mind. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.520 I can't remember, um, but they were they were talking 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.760 about Pythagoras and the Pythagorines and how they're like this 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:40.040 full chrome where numbers went from mystical things having a 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.320 mystical quality to bringing them into science and then taking 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:48.520 it right back into mysticism again, which is really odd, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.320 but that's that's really what happened. And it was part 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.800 partially because they got so wrapped up in the idea 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.800 that all his number and they were a really weird 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.880 group of people. They met their end really violently, um 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:04.360 in southern Italy, uh, where their their school was sacked 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.760 and burned. At least fifty of them were killed. Um. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.720 But like you said, they had created like a real 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.080 foundation for our understanding of math and the idea that 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.040 math was this thing that exists out there waiting for 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.920 us to discover and that it has a lot to 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.640 do with our life. But that the mystical qualities associated 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:29.199 kind of died with Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. That's right, Um, 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:30.880 I guess I mean, should we get into a little 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.679 bit of kind of what they were laying down there? Yeah, alright, 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:40.560 So they were studying these mathematical concepts and they said, 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.200 all right, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna sort 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.680 numbers into buckets, into categories. Not not the reindeer p bucket, 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.920 but into mathematical categories, so levers we can pull. Yeah, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.560 let's just say, let's say one, four, and nine are 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:59.600 square because, uh, if you take pebbles, the corresponding number 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.520 of little pebbles or rocks or whatever, you can arrange 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:07.440 them into a square. Again, geometry coming into play. Um, one, three, six, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.760 and ten are triangular because one, three, six, or ten 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:16.079 little pebbles can be arranged into regular triangles. The use 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.480 of one is both the square and a triangle. It's like, 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.040 I dispute that too. You're gonna have to pick one 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.280 or the other. Pythagoreans alright, so it would be falling 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:25.960 apart for you already if you were back there, just 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.160 there though, just there everything else. I was like, yeah, yeah, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.280 all is number, Give me some more, baby, Uh, two, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.880 six and twelve or oblong. So the corresponding number is 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.480 a rectangle. And so they're doing this kind of thing, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:45.320 and then they start getting into non numerical stuff and saying, 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:49.440 all right, odd numbers are masculine. Even numbers are feminine. Uh, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:54.120 the number one is creative because if you add multiple ones, 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:59.200 you can create any other number. Bro, what what else 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:03.600 is there? Well? To um, so odd is masculine, even 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.160 are feminine. Like you said, so two is the first 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:12.160 feminine number. It represents duality there two. Um. Three is 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.840 the first masculine number because like you said, one is 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.960 its own thing. It's a creator number. And so uh 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:25.680 five yeah, five is the is represents marriage because it's 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.760 where the first masculine number in the first feminine number. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.440 Um add up to just stuff like that, Like these 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.320 people clearly a way too much time on their hands 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.960 to think of something like that, um. And so like 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.520 each number one through nine, this is very important because 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.360 we didn't say it earlier when we introduced numerology, but 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:52.040 in numerological systems, one through nine are the prime and 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.000 I don't mean that mathematically, the most important, the most used, 0:15:55.040 --> 0:16:01.320 the most useful numbers, right, Um, So one through nine 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.000 are the ones to focus on, and that also came 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:08.440 directly from the Pythagoreans. They focused mostly on the numbers 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.920 one through nine as well, right uh. And I think 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.680 a goal for a lot of these charts is to 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:18.520 get your number down to one of those single digits eventually, right. Yeah, 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.600 that was for for most systems, and with most numbers 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:23.760 we'll talk about it, but yes, you ultimately want to 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:27.120 get it down to one of those single digit numbers. Yeah, yeah, 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.640 because you can't be ten because ten is a sacred number. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.160 Because someone said, you know, if you add up the 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:37.960 first four digits, it equals ten. Bro, And they did 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.720 stuff like that. They did stuff like that. But also 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:41.160 I just want to point out one of the other 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.240 things they did that. I'm like, I didn't even know 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.080 these existed, so I'm I'm still impressed. They were the 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.240 first ones to detect perfect numbers. And a perfect number 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.920 is a number where the divisors add up to form 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.480 the number. So six is a perfect number because if 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.360 you add as divisors devisors being one, two, and three, 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.639 they add up to six. So I mean there is 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.240 some neat stuff that is actually I think useful that 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.560 came out of it. But yes, other of other other 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.199 stuff is like, yes, ten is sacred because if you 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.159 add up one to three and four it comes up 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.600 to ten. It's like, what about five, six, seven, eight, 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:21.200 and nine? Jack, just canna ignore those? Yes, yes, we 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.600 are yes. The number ten also led to the list 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.040 of ten fundamental opposites um a few of which are 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.840 one and many rest in motion good and evil stuff 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.440 like that. Yeah, straight and crooked, sure, light and dark, 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.520 straight and crooked, yin and yang. That's not in there, 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.680 is it? You had to look? All right? So look, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.960 here's the thing. Because there was a really ironic end 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:54.040 to the Pythagoreans because they look too hard into numbers 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:58.400 and how numbers related to the universe, that they actually 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.480 found that everything doesn't fit into some neat and tidy 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.480 box like they thought. And supposedly one of the Pythagoreans 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.920 was kind of hanging around doing some equations and formula 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:12.960 at some point and tried to come up with the 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:17.400 square root of two and discovered the existence of irrational numbers. 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.639 And an irrational number is a number that has a 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:25.760 non repeating, non terminating decimal. It just goes on infinitely 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:30.160 like pie is an irrational number. The square root of two, 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.440 like the Pythagorines figured as an irrational number, and it 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.520 can't be represented in a simple fraction like every other number. 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:40.520 Rational numbers is what they're called. And apparently when they 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.960 found this out, it kind of like their worldview crumbled. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.359 Do all his number thing crumbled because they couldn't figure 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:52.760 out how this would apply to like an orderly, beautiful universe. Um. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.159 And apparently they even before they were sacked and burned 0:18:56.400 --> 0:19:00.200 and killed. They the school kind of like fell into 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.840 dark times once they figured out there were such things 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.280 as irrational numbers. Yeah, that's what happens when you're in 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.600 a cult. Yeah, kind of your face with reality and 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:13.520 it usually doesn't go very well. So after the death 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:19.679 of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, um, the mysticism, all this 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.040 stuff kind of faded away a little bit and was 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:26.159 resurrected in the eighteen hundreds, um, kind of notably with 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.159 the writings of a book from Mrs l. Dal Baallyette 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.439 a k A. Josie. I don't get it that was 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:40.159 her name, Okay. I think her husband's name was l. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.480 Dal Her name was Joseph Jane Josie Balliette. So I 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.399 was looking up anything on this this person, and like 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:51.280 she is just nowhere. Um. But she wrote a bunch 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.520 of books, but very little is known about her except 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:55.720 she died at age eighty four in Atlantic City. I 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.000 read very interesting. But she was the first one to 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.800 kind of come along and say vibrations, right. Yeah, And 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:04.320 you know, there were there were other people that were 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.080 writing books and stuff. It didn't like completely completely go away. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:11.000 But I think these books that talked about vibrations and 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.359 that talked about music and numbers and colors being you know, 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.240 because there's a little bit of synesthigious sort of thrown 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.320 in here as well. If some of this kind of 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:23.880 sounds familiar with colors and numbers representing like the same thing. 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.959 And so she was talking about everything and all these 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:33.800 numbers having vibrations. Uh, people, food, a tree, a bicycle, 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.920 anything has a vibration. And if you and this idea 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.280 that I spoke about earlier, if you want to live 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:43.320 in harmony in the world, then your environment should and 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.280 the numbers of your environment that have been assigned need 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:50.800 to match your own vibration in your own number. And 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.959 you know, this is where it definitely this is kind 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.000 of what we think of as modern numerology at this point. Yeah. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:00.680 One thing, one interesting thing about vibrations, especially sleep about 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:04.480 like an old timey nineteenth century writer, new age writer 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:09.240 basically talking about vibrations, um is that that's that's actually 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:13.600 the basis of some of the theories of how subatomic 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:17.720 particles behave vibrations, like string theories, based on the idea 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.479 that subatomic particles are actually vibrating strings of energy that 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:25.880 vibrate at different frequencies, and that those differing frequencies produce 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:30.080 their shape or their form um, which is I just 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:33.200 find that endlessly fascinating that it's almost, in some weird 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:38.240 way predicted string theory. But is it just one of 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.679 those things where it's like, yeah, I mean vibrations, especially 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:45.879 if you're into things like music, Um, it's not like 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.160 that far of a stretch or was it like, yeah, 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:52.040 they were tapped into some sort of weird preternatural understanding 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:57.679 of subatomic physics. Yeah, super interesting. Pythagoras also believed that 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.639 this vibration could have had some thing to do with 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.439 what was called the music of the spheres, which is 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:06.960 what he believed like the planets were embedded in these 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:11.840 transparent physical spheres, and the distance between them corresponded to 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.080 these musical ratios, and these are the sounds that the 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:18.280 planets that these vibrations that the planets in the Sun 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.720 make while orbiting the Earth. Were the little off on 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:23.280 that one when they wasn't that on the Golden Records? 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:25.840 Didn't Carl Sagan create like an homage to that on 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:29.120 the Golden records. I think so I knew it sounded familiar. 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.359 We talked about it before. I do also want to 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:34.320 shout out a company if you're looking to get a 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:40.520 kind of the best wind chime that you can buy. No, 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:43.040 there's a company out of Boston called Music of the Spheres. 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:46.040 Oh cool, and they're amazing, like you can get it's 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:49.840 I've got several sets in different places and they they're 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:51.760 just I wanted to shout them out for a while, 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:55.040 because when someone just makes something great, you know this, 0:22:55.160 --> 0:23:00.080 This ain't no uh big box wind chime. Wind chimes 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:03.280 are us these beautiful sounds. No, it's a Music of 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:05.480 the sphere. So so wait a minute. You're you're poking 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:07.320 fun at people who are talking about how ten is 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:09.520 a holy number because one through four it up to 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:12.400 ten and you have multiple wind chimes at your house. 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:16.040 I love wind chimes. I got one of those big 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:18.640 doggers at my camp, like way up in a tree, 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:20.760 and these things, I mean, it took a lot to 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:22.760 get them up there. They're heavy, but they're like five 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:27.000 ft long. They're these I'm sure the girls are really 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:31.520 happy you've moved in. Hey, we still bears despite the chime. 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:34.280 Oh is the bear back? Has it been back? No? 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:36.480 But I put the chime up and the bear came afterwards, 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:38.359 So I think they're attracted to it. I got you 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:45.840 sase bears come get a picnic basket. So, uh, where 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:50.840 are we here? Well, we're talking about modern numerology, right, Yeah, 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.000 I guess we should talk a little bit about I mean, 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:54.440 should we take a break and then talk about that? 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:56.160 I think you're right, Chuck, I think all right, we'll 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:57.920 take a break and we'll talk about sort of modern 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:01.560 numerology and how we come up with our own numbers 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:31.679 and what that even means right after this? All right, 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:34.400 So we talked to talk about how one through nine 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:39.119 are inherently important to UM modern numerologists and the Pythagoreans 0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:42.160 to right correct, and that each of those numbers one 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:46.280 through nine has its own vibration, and those vibrations give 0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:55.919 that number certain property. And I'm talking properties like um leadership, harmony, karma, wisdom, curiosity, 0:24:56.760 --> 0:25:04.400