Patterns in Art, Architecture, Urban Design, & the Cosmos

I’ve written a book called Taking Measure: Explorations in Number, Architecture, and Consciousness and have self-published it both as a book and as an ebook so you can read it on paper or on screen, however you prefer. Both editions have the same content. The physical book has high resolution black and white images whereas the ebook has color images sized for the screen.

I educated myself on the plethora of ebook formats and settled on EPUB after I discovered the free Calibre software. Calibre is the Swiss Army knife of ebooks, allowing you to not only read ebooks on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, but Calibre can also translate the EPUB into over a dozen popular formats so you can read my ebook on iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches, Kindles, SONY readers, Nooks, Kobos, and many other electronic devices.

Taking Measure: Explorations in Number, Architecture, and Consciousness reveals patterns emergent in our universe from quantum to astronomic scales. Spatial and temporal codes appear in unexpected places, from our units of measure to the relationships between celestial bodies. Geometric and numeric encoding appears in architecture, in urban design, and in alignments across the Earth. Does this happen by pure coincidence, has it been done to preserve knowledge, or is it an ancient form of magic that continues to this day? Are the synchronicities we experience in our personal lives manifestations of these same patterns? This book takes a new look at familiar structures in the tangible world but also engages with the invisible world, including the question of consciousness.

The cover is the Flammarion woodcut, drawn by an anonymous artist in 1888. I colorized this public domain image in Photoshop. The image very much symbolizes the transformative journey that this book can take you on, by taking measure of the secrets in plain sight.

The book/ebook features 9 chapters (that’s no accident because exploring the quality of the number 9 is one of the book’s themes):

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 – The Decimal System and the Ennead
Chapter 2 – Metrology
Chapter 3 – Measuring Time
Chapter 4 – The Honeycomb and the Apple
Chapter 5 – Key Numbers
Chapter 6 – Number Patterns
Chapter 7 – Taxonomy of Encoded Structures
Chapter 8 – Encoded Structures
Chapter 9 – Behind the Curtain
About the Author

Here is the book’s introduction which should give you a feel for the subject matter:

Introduction:

I began this book as a way of taking measure of my two films, Secrets In Plain Sight Volumes 1 & 2, a series very densely packed with information which runs for more than 5 hours. Many viewers watch the films over and over and have picked up different things on each viewing. This process takes a lot of time and I recognize that people are very busy these days so I wanted to distill into a small book the essentials of what the films have uncovered. The written format encourages depth of analysis and synthesis.
By taking measure of the objective world of things from the quantum to architectural to astronomic scales, I have observed numerical patterns emerging from the scientific data. This book presents numeric codes unfolding in space and time in many unexpected places, from our units of measure to the relationships between celestial bodies. Geometric and numeric encoding is also explored in cities, in architecture, in alignments across the Earth, and in the human body. We start in the exterior objective world and the evidence gradually leads us into the subjective world within.
As I set off writing I didn’t realize the extent to which this book would clarify my own thinking and take my awareness in new directions but that was the end result. I hope that by reading this book you will enjoy the journey and the expanded perspectives as much as I do.

Scott Onstott
Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada
November 2012

I am pleased to announce the simultaneous publication my two latest books, both published in Sybex/Wiley’s Essentials series. I’ve written these books for both the left and right sides of your brain covering AutoCAD and Photoshop respectively (vector and raster). Learn how to draw accurately and paint creatively with these books. No experience is required.

AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013 Essentials ISBN 978-1-118-24481-4

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Essentials ISBN 978-1-118-09495-2

I said I was going to stop blogging for a while but I’ll tell you that is not so easy for me. I am reading Rick Riordan’s fascinating book The Red Pyramid to my son and just had an epiphany. Set is the antagonist in the novel who aims to burn the desert clean and have his demons build a temple to him in Phoenix Arizona (see my post on Phoenixes).

Riordan is the same author who wrote the popular Percy Jackson series about the Greek gods.

ISBN 1423113381

In Ancient Egyptian religion, Set was the god of the desert, storms, and foreigners. In later myths he was also the god of darkness and chaos. -Source

Set Image by Jeff Dahl under CC BY-SA 3.0 license

In operation Desert Storm foreigners literally stormed the desert. The United States led a coalition force in response to Iraq’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

Was Set behind George H. W. Bush’s coalition?

The invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi troops that began 2 August 1990 was met with international condemnation, and brought immediate economic sanctions against Iraq by members of the UN Security Council. U.S. President George H. W. Bush deployed American forces to Saudi Arabia, and urged other countries to send their own forces to the scene.

The great majority of the military forces in the coalition were from the United States, with Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Egypt as leading contributors, in that order. Around US$36 billion of the US$60 billion cost was paid by Saudi Arabia. -Source

United Nations Security Council Resolution 666 was adopted on 13 September 1990 with 13 votes [I'm not kidding]. Cuba and Yemen voted against the resolution, with Cuba stating that even through the use of disclaimers, the resolution amounted to “using starvation as a weapon of war”, banned under Protocol 1 of the Geneva Conventions. -Source

The burning oil wells led to darkness falling over the entire region.

In the chaos that ensued between 400,000 and 600,000 ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Chaldean artifacts were plundered. -Source

At least 80 percent of the 170,000 separate items stored at the National Museum of Antiquities in Baghdad were stolen or destroyed during the looting rampage that followed the US military occupation of Baghdad. The museum was the greatest single storehouse of materials from the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, including Sumeria, Akkadia, Babylonia, Assyria and Chaldea.

It also held artifacts from Persia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and various Arab dynasties. The museum held the tablets with Hammurabi’s Code, perhaps the world’s first system of laws, and cuneiform texts that are the oldest known examples of writing-epic poems, mathematical treatises, historical accounts. An entire library of clay tablets had not yet been deciphered or researched, in part because of the US-backed sanctions that restricted travel to Iraq. -The Sacking Of Iraq’s Museums - US Wages War Against Culture And History by Patrick Martin (source)

In a revealing interview with Josh Reeves on Red Ice radio he speculates that the obvious motivation of controlling the richest oil production on the planet might have been nothing more than a side benefit to securing particular ancient Anunnaki artifacts containing the spirits of powerful beings known as Djinns.

David Wilcock said in his popular 2012 Enigma video:

“The development of artificial stargates also came from ‘cylinder seals’ extracted from Iraq from both the first (1991) [Desert Storm] and second (2003) Gulf War [Coalition of the Willing] military interventions by the US and its allies. The cylinder seals contain extraterrestrial information given to the ancient Sumerians who faithfully replicated this information on cuneiform texts.  One of the primary “secret” reasons for U.S. military intervention into Iraq was motivated by the desire to recover and control stargate technology in both 1991 and 2003.”

Set was the god who dismembered Osiris, sealed 13 pieces of his body in a coffin (but threw his penis into the river) and tossed the box into the Nile (see Omphale).

Are you content to live in da Nile or are you ready to face the fact that the gods are real?

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