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1=2: Let’s break maths
As a schoolboy I told my mother maths was the truth. Then pi refused to end, and five lines of algebra proved that 2 equals 1.
What each sacred frequency is for
Nine pure tones, nine jobs, from comfort at 174 hertz to oneness at 963. The tricky part is admitting which one you need.
Are we in a simulation?
A scribe counted in sixties four thousand years ago, and the count still runs your clock. The same numbers keep meeting in the sky, and two readings stay open.
How many of you is inside you?
Surgeons cut the bridge between a man’s brain halves to stop his seizures. Later, one half picked a shovel and the other invented why.
The cup stays. The tea does not.
A clay cup of chai on a Varanasi step, and a four-part word from the Upaniṣads for watching anything arrive, stay, and go.
You find out when you have to explain it
You can zip a jacket in the dark. Try explaining how the zip works, and watch the lights go out in a room you thought you knew.
The middle of your life is not 40
The clock says forty. An old staircase print says fifty. A French philosopher’s rule says eighteen. The middle depends on the ruler.
When a word stops being a word
Stare at a familiar word long enough and the letters stay, but the feeling that they mean something packs a bag and leaves.
Why isn’t the Moon moonly?
Friend becomes friendly, love becomes lovely, and the Moon gets a word from another family. Blame a very old guest list.
Why hot tea goes cold
You pour the tea, answer one message, and it has gone cold. The heat did not vanish. It went somewhere it can no longer do much.