EssexArchive

Just a quick observation, because I'm supposed to be studying for finals... I can't find the thread, but I was hung up on the significance of the number 13 in regards to the number of "participants" in a Magnus, because it's a prime and not generally found in nature... However, came across a geometric construct called a metatrons cube that nicely arranges 13 circles in a hexagon pattern. Obviously you can Google one up, maybe you're all familiar with it already but it was new to me. ( I don't abide by that numerology/angels/crystals stuff. ) Anyway, it was nice how the framework also meshed with the glyph framework. Scientific discovery rarely falls in line with man's desire to have everything in tidy symmetrical patterns... but occasionally, it does.

Of interest: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-myths-legends-europe/ancient-grotto-seven-sleepers-002259?nopaging=1 [embed]http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-myths-legends-europe/ancient-grotto-seven-sleepers-002259?nopaging=1[/embed]

I was questioning "Why bother to keep the magnus' bodies alive? on another thread, and I think I might be satisfied with this answer: "...long before we were conscious, thinking beings, our cells were reading data from the environment and working together to mould us into robust, self-sustaining agents. What we take as intelligence, then, is not simply about using symbols to represent the world as it objectively is. Rather, we only have the world as it is revealed to us, which is rooted in our evolved, embodied needs as an organism. Nature ‘has built the apparatus of rationality not just on top of the apparatus of biological regulation, but also from it and with it’, wrote the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio in Descartes’ Error (1994), his seminal book on cognition. In other words, we think with our whole body, not just with the brain." Perhaps, in recruiting adult bodies, the architects of the machine get a couple decades or more of biological expertise at sorting an...

On the naming of XM Artifacts, Catylists, Anomalies and WMDs Like agent Ravidor pointed out, the name "techthulu" is a portmanteau of "technology" and "Cthulu", the great old one from Howard Lovecraft's horror mythos. I don't really care for it. As a biomedical scientist, I prefer descriptive names to eponyms, but they're hard to get rid of once they've become established. For example: you'll never replace Parkinson's with "rigid dyskinesia" or "paralysis agitans". Progress is being made, however. What was once "Mongolism" thankfully became known as "Down Syndrome" and is now known as Trisomy 21 in most clinical settings. A big part of science if nomenclature. People everywhere should be able to know something by name, not dependent on having read the Call of Cthulu to infer that the suffix "-thulu" this is something huge, alien, and evil. Recent information suggests that this thing...

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170215-the-strange-link-between-the-human-mind-and-quantum-physics I've been thinking lately about how or even if XM interacts with the majority of (non-sensitive) human beings, and why cell phones and the "Ingress" interface have played such a large role in the global awareness of XM. My initial thoughts were "why do you have to be within short range of a portal, with a cell phone"? Presumably something about the cellphone can manipulate the portal. Cellphones operate at a much longer wavelength than would be able to affect a human on a cellular level (other than potentially cooking them, like microwaves). I was kind of stuck along this line of thinking but now I'm wondering if the process of observing XM is causing it to change its behavior, a la quantum physics. It's a good article, and easily readable. Physics isn't my forte, I'm a biomedical scientist but it has opened a new line of thinking about the interac...