Knucklebones were ubiquitous objects in the ancient world and they had several meanings, from gaming pieces to oracular dice. The study of a new unpublished decorated knucklebone Graeco-Roman Egypt with ‘Baubo’ image squatting naked woman, preserved at Metropolitan Museum Art New York, offers opportunity explore variety contexts use knucklebones this area: play divination Orphic rituals local r...

This paper proposes to explore how being “skillful” (mergen) plays out and is relied upon in Mongolia within two different contexts, archery divination, both linked “cairns” (ovoo) more than one way. In these skillful people are expected embody a virtue that any Mongolian man or woman supposed exhibit daily less spectacular consequential manner. As prominent bearers of skillfulness, archers div...

Abstract In presenting self-preservation as the most general law of nature, set at summit structure natural world, Francis Bacon characterized universal appetite for an innate instinct which, in case living beings, is primarily associated with emotion fear. Bacon’s philosophy offers several techniques self-care to manage fear accidents fortune from which existence and well-being self under cons...

In this paper I weave together a number of apparently distinct threads of investigation: the spiritual function of mathematics, the Image and Number (Xiangshu 象數) approach to the study of change, information theory and reality, divination and consciousness. The general background to this discussion is the idea that the study of mathematics forms a spiritual pursuit; that the investigation of ab...

Cultural attitudes towards mentally and physically challenged and handicapped fellow-humans have changed from culture to culture and from century to century. But all cultures seem to have visible or hidden recognition of the dignity and uniqueness and sometimes divine characteristics of the handicapped. From bodily and mentally challenged acrobats and artists in the Chinese Imperial Court and t...

Vedic Physics includes a theory of the emergence of matter from the invisible Substratum of Thaamic matter, into either the stable 8 x 8 Satwa Material or the dynamic 9 x 9 Raja form. Matter emerges in two dimensions from the Substratum, emerging at the very center of a circle, with the extrusion of tiny particles of Dark Matter through a central hole, at the logarithm of e, or the Euler Number...